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2 days ago · Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, in their article "Income and Democracy" (2008) show that even though there is a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, once one controls for country fixed effects and removes the association between income per capita and various measures of democracy, there is "no causal effect of income on democracy."
2 days ago · Daron Acemoglu was interviewed on Edward Zitron’s podcast, Rot Economics, about the future of the tech sector and the impact of AI. About the researchers.
2 days ago · Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most important and influential economists, and someone who has written extensively about the rise and impact of AI, and the malign influence of the technology industry on our lives, our governments, and our societies. It was, to put it simply, an eye-opening ...
4 days ago · Daron Acemoglu received a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He is currently Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. Among his awards are the John Bates Clark Medal and the ...
4 days ago · Daron Acemoglu received a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He is currently Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
1 day ago · The lead story is an interview with Daron Acemoglu, a Professor at MIT. Professor Acemoglu argues that genAI is wildly overhyped and its impact on GDP growth over the next decade will be extremely limited. David Cahn at Sequoia published simple maths: given the capex spent on AI, the returns must be enormous (the “$600bn question”).
3 days ago · Based on: Acemoglu Daron and Johnson Simon. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity . PublicAffairs, 2023. 560 pp. $32, hardcover.
