Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.

The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on ...
Marketplace

The American economy is holding up better than expected

In its quarterly report, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development lifted its growth forecast for the U.S. to ...
NBC New York

Nobel economics prize for 2024 awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

U.S.-based economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel prize in economic sciences on Monday for their work on wealth inequality between nations. The academics ...
WESA

Economist Daron Acemoglu on why strong, trusted institutions bring economic and political stability

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...
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Nobel for Economics Awarded to Authors of ‘Why Nations Fail’ and an Ex-IMF Figure

Why do some nations prosper while others are poor? To boil down this year’s economics Nobel to a single sentence: “Institutions matter.” The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron ...
The Boston Globe

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, both MIT professors, win Nobel Prize

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...
American Enterprise Institute

Daron Acemoglu: Too Much Faith in Government, Too Little in Markets (And AI)

MIT economist and freshly minted Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu (with whom I podcasted in 2017) has outlined three emerging “epochal” challenges for the American economy. If you tried to guess them, ...