Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) congratulates Daron Acemoğlu, Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist born in 1967 in Istanbul, Türkiye and is known in the world of economics for his work investigating the effects of political and economic institutions on the economic performance of countries.
Acemoğlu received a BA in economics from the University of York, 1989, an MSc in mathematical economics and econometrics from the London School of Economics, 1990, and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics in 1992. Since 1993, he has held the academic positions of Lecturer at the London School of Economics, and Assistant Professor, Pentti Kouri Associate Professor, and Professor of Economics at MIT.
He is the author of six books: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (with James A. Robinson), Principles of Economics (with David Laibson and John List), The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson).
ATAA extends its best wishes to Prof. Daron Acemoğlu for his future accomplishments.
