Selected Presentations

Clarendon Lectures
Oxford University
October 22-24, 2007

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

IMF Training Seminar Lectures
Daron Acemoglu
Washington, DC
February, 2007
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

Political Economy of Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Pareto Lecture
Collegio Carlo Alberto
June, 2007

Law, Politics and the Wealth of Nations - Lessons from History
Daron Acemoglu
Boston Club Metting
March, 2006

Growth Theory Since Solow and the Poverty of Nations
Daron Acemoglu
World Bank
April, 2006

Gaston Eyskens Lectures
Daron Acemoglu
Leuven, Belgium
October, 2005
Lecture 1 - Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Lecture 2 - Blocking Development
Lecture 3 - Democracy vs Oligarchy
Lecture 4 - Emergence and Consolidation of Democracy

Understanding Productivity Differences
Daron Acemoglu
Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association
Washington, DC
February, 2005

Understanding Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)
Lionel Robbins Lectuures
London School of Economics
January, 2005

Thinking about the Rise and Decline of Nations
Daron Acemoglu
CEPR-BREAD Conference
Istanbul, Turkey
2005

Labor-Augmenting and Skill-Biased Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu
(based in part on joint work with Veronica Guerrieri)
Society of Economic Dynamics Lecture
July, 2004

Rethinking the Wealth of Nations
Daron Acemoglu
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)
Lionell Robbins Lectures, 2004

Human Capital and the Nature of Technological Progress.pdf
Daron Acemoglu
AstraZeneca and StoraEnso Lecture
Stockholm, Sweden
December 11, 2003