Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality with Daron Acemoglu

The 2024 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality will be delivered by economist Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT. The Stone Lecture is designed to bring greater awareness to wealth concentration and the broader problems of inequality. Professor Acemoglu will discuss "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity." The event will include a Q&A session moderated by Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of six books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks. He received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, the Global Economy Prize in 2019, and the CME Mathematical and Statistical Research Institute prize in 2021. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. 

Please register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. The event will be publicly livestreamed on the IOP's YouTube channel.