Daron Acemoğlu

Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association as the best economist working in the United States under age 40. James A. Robinson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a Harvard Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead. Their previous book The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy was highly acclaimed and won numerous awards.