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Daron Acemoglu

1967 - Today

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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (Turkish: [daˈɾon aˈdʒemoːɫu];, Armenian: Տարոն Աճեմօղլու; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daron Acemoglu is the 115th most popular economist (up from 257th in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,005th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Economist. Learn more about Daron Acemoglu's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Daron Acemoglu ranks 115 out of 414. Before him are John Harsanyi, Richard Thaler, Bingu wa Mutharika, Friedrich von Wieser, Merton Miller, and Lucas Papademos. After him are Thomas Schelling, Franz Oppenheimer, Alfred Weber, Lorenz von Stein, Knut Wicksell, and Thomas J. Sargent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Daron Acemoglu ranks 31. Before him are Mark Ruffalo, Massimiliano Allegri, Aleksandr Karelin, Mike Portnoy, Maher al-Assad, and Iván Zamorano. After him are Aleksander Čeferin, Yingluck Shinawatra, Benicio del Toro, Néstor Carbonell, Michael Johnson, and Anna Nicole Smith.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Daron Acemoglu ranks 469 out of 1,347. Before him are Theophanes the Greek (1340), George Kedrenos (1100), Diodotus Tryphon (-150), Artaphernes (-600), Melito of Sardis (140), and Agathius (300). After him are Astyanax (null), Menaechmus (-375), Emine Erdoğan (1955), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Euthymius the Great (377), and Latife Uşşaki (1898).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Türkiye

Among economists born in Türkiye, Daron Acemoglu ranks 5. Before him are Henri Fayol (1841), Tansu Çiller (1946), Cornelius Castoriadis (1922), and Dani Rodrik (1957). After him are Nouriel Roubini (1958), and Fatih Birol (1958).

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