“Can Technological Progress Build Shared Prosperity? Lessons from Power and Progress”

The Institute for International Economic Policy at the George Washington University is pleased to host Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT, and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, for a keynote address as part of the 11th Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ).

About the Speaker

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty.

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