Daron Acemoğlu is Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Economic Growth Program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research.
His research covers a wide range of areas within economics, including political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics and learning.
In the book "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it).