Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to an economist under 40 who has made the most important contribution to economics.
Project Title: Building State Capacity
Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, History, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor of Economics, Yale University
L. L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University