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Daron Acemoğlu
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Person

Daron Acemoğlu

b. 1967

Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences (born 1967)

Born
3 Sept 1967 · Istanbul
Part ofTurkey1,258 BCE – todayArmenians1817 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 68 years
  1. 3 Sept 1967BornBorn in Istanbul
  2. 2005AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
  3. 2005AwardJohn Bates Clark Medal
  4. 2007AwardHeinz I. Eulau Award
  5. 2007AwardJohn von Neumann Award
  6. 2012AwardErwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
  7. 2013AwardPresidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards
  8. 2016AwardBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  9. 2017AwardCarnegie Fellow
  10. 2017AwardHonorary doctorate from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
  11. 2019AwardGlobal Economy Prize
  12. 2021AwardCorresponding Fellow of the British Academy
  13. 2022AwardClarivate Citation Laureates

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1967 – today).

  1. 1968Prague Spring
  2. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  3. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  4. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  5. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  7. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  8. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  9. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  10. 1985Schengen Agreement
  11. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  12. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  13. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  15. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  17. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  18. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  19. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  20. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  21. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  22. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  23. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  24. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  25. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  26. 20112011 Norway attacks
  27. 2011Libyan civil war
  28. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  29. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  30. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  32. 2015Paris Agreement
  33. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  34. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  35. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  36. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  37. 2023Gaza war
  38. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  39. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024.

Acemoglu ranked third, behind Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw, in the list of "Favorite Living Economists Under Age 60" in a 2011 survey among American economists. In 2015, he was named the most cited economist of the past 10 years per Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) data. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Acemoglu is the third most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses after Mankiw and Krugman.

In 2024, Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between states and empires. He is regarded as a centrist with a focus on institutions, poverty and econometrics.

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