Acemoglu became fascinated by divergent economic, political, and social outcomes across countries and by explanations of wealth and poverty disparities during his teenage years, which framed his subsequent research.

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Speaker

Daron Acemoglu

Evidence Quote

I got into economics because I was fascinated by what I saw around me in my very young teen years about very divergent economic, political, and social outcomes across countries, huge disparities in terms of wealth, in terms of poverty.

Source

AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron AcemogluMIT Sloan Management Review
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:05:02 PM

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