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Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the annual Cornelson Distinguished Lecture in Economics. Acemoglu won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005 as best economist under age 40, and has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s “100 Global Thinkers for 2012.” He is co-author of the bestseller, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. The book explores why some nations prosper and others fail, and concludes that man-made political and economic institutions underlie economic success.
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