Daron Acemoglu, a Turkish-American professor of economics at MIT, was already the world’s most influential economist before he won the 2024 Nobel Prize on October 14 with his frequent collaborators James Robinson and Simon Johnson (the trio are sometimes abbreviated as AJR). He dominates his field, in terms of publications and citations, and in wider public influence. Why Nations Fail,published by Acemoglu and Robinson in 2012, has been even more influential than Thomas Piketty’s – mostly because Acemoglu and Robinson didn’t change their minds about their core thesis in subsequent books.
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