Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, is a co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Profile, 2019) and a co-author (with Simon Johnson) of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023).
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What It Takes to Build Democratic Institutions
What It Takes to Build Democratic Institutions
Jan 16, 2024 Daron Acemoglu sees Chile's flawed efforts to draft a new constitution as a lesson in what to avoid.
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Clarifying America’s Great Inequality Debate
Clarifying America’s Great Inequality Debate
Jan 3, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks warring academic studies are confusing several technical issues and obscuring the larger problem.
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Dark Offshore Money Threatens Democracy
Dark Offshore Money Threatens Democracy
Jan 2, 2024 Simon Johnson & Daron Acemoglu call for a crackdown on the dozens of tax havens around the world and reform of financial secrecy laws.
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Kissinger’s Opening to China Will Haunt American Politics in 2024
Kissinger’s Opening to China Will Haunt American Politics in 2024
Dec 15, 2023 Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson show how US economic policies based solely on realpolitik have backfired but still cast a shadow.
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What Anti-Trumpism Is Missing
What Anti-Trumpism Is Missing
Nov 29, 2023 Daron Acemoglu urges Democrats to support working-class interests and priorities after many years of neglect.