Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. He thinks we should slow down and make sure we’re using AI the ...

Daron Acemoglu: While I don’t know the answer to that right now, what I can say is that the industry itself is wasting a lot of money. It has put close to a trillion dollars into the hardware ...

Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT ... Acemoglu and Johnson tackle in "Power and Progress." Two factors, they say, determine the outcome of a new technology. The first is the nature of the ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu — who’s studied long-term “growth and stagnation” throughout his career — on Sunday offered “creative” insight into the “consequences ...

Most people around the world want to live in a democracy, and yet fewer and fewer trust their governments. This is partly because citizens are making too many demands on their states.

But one MIT economist isn't so sure. In a new National Bureau of Economic Research study, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu projects just mild economic upside in the US, stemming from AI advancement.

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that advanced the understanding of economic disparities among countries. Acemoglu ...

This year's Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of ... the main reason why the committee would say that even if this year's laureates did not invent ...

The work of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson can help explain the government's collusion in criminal activities like cyber-scams.