Daron Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize-winning economist from MIT.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
Multiple independent tier1 and primary sources confirm Daron Acemoglu won the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is an MIT economist, so the claim holds as of 2026-09-23. The post's spelling 'Darren Asimoglu' is a misspelling of the same person, and the extraction's correction of the name is not a substantive change.
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… And maybe before you answer, I should also mention that I think just before this episode comes out, one will come out with, uh where I interviewed Darren Asimoglu, the Nobel Prize winning economist from MIT, and we talked a lot about AI and how it's affected and undermined liberal democracy. Yeah, so people on social media are performing for bots, right? I mean, there's huge numbers of bots, and you can engage those bots with, you know, outrage campaigns. …
Robinson's Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Reuters and AP both report that Daron Acemoglu, with Simon Johnson and James Robinson, won the 2024 Nobel economics prize.[1][2]
Supports. MIT's own news and faculty pages state that Acemoglu received the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences and is an MIT Institute Professor of Economics.[3][4]
Supports. The Nobel Prize's own facts page lists Acemoglu's affiliation at the time of the award as MIT, Cambridge, MA.[5]
Context. The post's name 'Darren Asimoglu' is a misspelling of Daron Acemoglu; the surrounding context (Nobel winner from MIT, discussing AI and democracy) identifies the same economist.
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Nobel economics prize goes to inequality researchersreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Nobel economics prize goes to 3 economists who found ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Daron Acemoglu wins Nobel Prize in economics – IDSSidss.mit.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Daron Acemoglumitsloan.mit.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5Daron Acemoglu – Facts – 2024nobelprize.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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