Recommended Reading from MIT! Browse this great, annotated list of recent books by members of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences faculty and staff — and by authors from across the Institute! MIT Science MIT SA+P MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT School of Engineering bit.ly/MITSummerReadi…

Why Nation-Building Failed in Afghanistan prosyn.org/2fwjXbx

Data in #DigitalMarkets & money are the topics of day 2 research session at the #BISResearchConference, w/ Daron Acemoglu from MIT Economics & Markus Brunnermeier Markus Brunnermeier from Princeton Economics presenting their work and Jean-Charles Rochet as chair bis.org/events/confres…

Why Nation-Building Failed in Afghanistan Project Syndicate prosyn.org/2fwjXbx

The Bitcoin Fountainhead by Daron Acemoglu Project Syndicate prosyn.org/GNAhxdC

Panel on The Organizational Economics of AI nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Why Taiwan Matters by Daron Acemoglu, et al Project Syndicate prosyn.org/1ilmlUe

Pandemic Staffing & the Robot Revolution: MIT economist Daron Acemoglu says automation has exacerbated wage inequality in the US over the past 40 years and that pay gaps could worsen without planning for the time when workers return to the labor market: wbur.fm/3TfkxQZ

To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy Project Syndicate prosyn.org/6ODff25

Have you registered for #EGPresents yet? There's less than a week to go before Daron Acemoglu, Brian Chen, Virginia Doellgast, Simon Johnson, Shayna Strom, and Kathryn Zickuhr dive into some of the most pressing questions around the future of tech. RSVP today: web.cvent.com/event/6ce480ee…

Daron Acemoglu already has a social media account for economics posting. It’s called Econometrica.

Daron! • Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’ ⁦Daron Acemoglu⁩ on.ft.com/3OspaqS

"Many areas that have rapidly automated don’t deliver the types of returns that they promised: humans are underrated,” Initiative Co-Director Daron Acemoglu told Alex Kantrowitz for a The Boston Globe article on the unlikelihood of AI-driven mass unemployment. bostonglobe.com/2023/08/09/opi…

Join us on October 10th at 5pm BST (Midday ET, 9am PT) for a free webinar with Daron Acemoglu on his latest book 'Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity', hosted by GovAI's Economics of AI Lead Anton Korinek. Sign up: governance.ai/post/upcoming-…

Great sessions of Wolfgang Schmidt with giants of the economics profession Dani Rodrik and Daron Acemoglu -- discussing industrial policy, the creation of quality jobs in the wake of AI and the impact of the IRA on trade, investments and energy prices.

America’s Real China Problem by Daron Acemoglu and Simon H Johnson Project Syndicate prosyn.org/wQzLSjY

Why do we want machines to be intelligent? In this exclusive video, Daron Acemoglu, MIT professor and author of the #1 NYT bestseller Why Nations Fail, shares why we need to make machines useful to humans, not just intelligent. Watch the full clip here: youtube.com/watch?v=ujWqZZ…

What's next for organizations and employees in the #AI age? MIT Economics professor Daron Acemoglu has been thinking about it. cnbc.com/video/2023/12/…