Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the best economist under 40.
Books in order of publication:
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – 2006
Why Nations Fail – 2012
The Narrow Corridor, States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty – 2019
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity – 2023
Oak Lawn Library Friends 