Daron Acemoglu, the economist to follow

IHe’s the economist everyone’s been craving. Born on September 3, 1967 in Istanbul, this MIT professor is at the top of the list of Nobel candidates. ” It’s a kind total economist “, says of him the young professor at Berkeley, Antoine Levy, who met him while he was doing his doctorate at MIT. David Thesmar is full of praise for his colleague from the famous American university: ” He is a great theoretician, a force of nature, a prolific and intense thinker. »

Daron Acemoglu has embraced all fields and subfields of the discipline for two decades. His academic papers are numerous and are among the most cited in the world. His two seminal essays, co-written with James Robinson, Why Nations Fail (Why some countries get away with it, and others…