Daron Acemoglu

Selected Presentations

Gorman Lectures, UCL

Lecture 1 - Tasks, Automation and the Labor Market
Lecture 2 - New Tasks, Good Automation and Bad Automation: Implications for the Future of Work
October 12-13, 2020

Munich Lectures in Economics

Lecture 1 - Political Economy of State Building (based on joint research with James Robinson)
Lecture 2 - State Capacity and Economic Development
Lecture 3 - The Perils of Top-down State Building
November 17-19, 2015

NBER Lectures on Networks

Lecture 1: Networks: Games over Networks and Peer Effects
Lecture 2: Networks: Propagation of Shocks over Economic Networks
July 22, 2014

Nemmers Prize Lecture, Northwestern University

State Building: A Political Economy Perspective
May 14, 2013

FBBVA Lecture - Madrid, Spain

Why Nations Fail
May 21, 2012

Zeuthen Lectures - University of Copenhagen

Sucess and Failure of Nations: International Bottlenecks
Sucess and Failure of Nations: Modeling Inefficient Institutions
Persistence of Weak States
The Rise and Decline of Oligarchic Regimes
May 22-24, 2012

Schwartz Lecture - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2011 Schwartz Lecture
April 2011

American Economic Association Annual Meeting - Denver, CO

Thoughts on Inequality in Financial Crisis
January 2011

World Bank/IMF Conference on Financial Regulation

Risk and Regulation: Lessons from the Crisis of 2008
May 2009

Marshall Lectures - University of Cambridge

Lecture 1 - Persistence and Change in Institutions
Lecture 2 - Dynamics and Stability of Political Systems
February 2009

Clarendon Lectures - Oxford University

Lecture 1 - Directed Technical Change: Importance, Issues and Approaches
Lecture 2 - Implications of Directed Technical Change, Cross-Country Income Differences and Economic Divergence
Lecture 3 - General Theory of Directed Technical Change
October 22-24, 2007

IMF Training Seminar Lectures - Washington, DC

Lecture 1 - Political Economy of Growth: Towards a Framework
Lecture 2 - Political Economy of Growth: Modeling Barriers to Economic Growth
Lecture 3 - Political Economy of Growth: Understanding Political Dynamics
February 2007

Pareto Lecture - Collegio Carlo Alberto

Political Economy of Growth
June 12, 2007

Boston Club Meeting

Law, Politics and the Wealth of Nations - Lessons from History
March, 2006

World Bank Presentation

Growth Theory Since Solow and the Poverty of Nations
April 26, 2006

Gaston Eyskens Lectures - Leuven, Belgium

Lecture 1 - Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Lecture 2 - Blocking Development
Lecture 3 - Democracy vs Oligarchy
Lecture 4 - Emergence and Consolidation of Democracy
October 2005

Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association - Washington, DC

Understanding Productivity Differences
February, 2005

Lionel Robbins Lectures - London School of Economics

Understanding Institutions
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)
January 2005

CEPR-BREAD Conference - Istanbul, Turkey

Thinking about the Rise and Decline of Nations
June 2005

Society of Economic Dynamics Lecture

Labor-Augmenting and Skill-Biased Technical Change
(based in part on joint work with Veronica Guerrieri)
July, 2004

Lionell Robbins Lectures
February 23, 2004

Rethinking the Wealth of Nations
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)

AstraZeneca and StoraEnso Lecture - Stockholm, Sweden
December 11, 2003

Human Capital and the Nature of Technological Progress