2017 Great Immigrants

Daron Acemoglu

Professor of Economics, MIT

Born in: Turkey

Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Updated July 2017

Website:
http://whynationsfail.com/bios/

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Angel Cabrera
President, George Mason University
Max Levchin
Cofounder, PayPal
Abdul Karim Kallon
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
David Thouless
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, University of Washington

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