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Daron Acemoglu

Writing for PS since 2012
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Daron Acemoglu, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and 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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  1. The Fall and Rise of American Democracy
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    The Fall and Rise of American Democracy

    Dec 3, 2024 Daron Acemoglu is not surprised that so many voters ignored warnings about the threat Donald Trump poses to US institutions.

  2. The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda
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    The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

    Nov 29, 2024 Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.

  3. The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault
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    The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault

    Nov 12, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks Kamala Harris lost because her party has ceased to be the political home of American workers.

  4. Escaping the New Gilded Age
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    Escaping the New Gilded Age

    Sep 27, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks the social, cultural, and political influence wielded by the superrich has reached a dangerous level.

  5. The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown
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    The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown

    Aug 30, 2024 Daron Acemoglu sees five reasons to believe that the former president would do far more damage if given another term.

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    Why DOGE and Musk Will Fail

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify a fundamental flaw in the design of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”
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    Syria’s House of Cards

    Barak Barfi

    External factors surely contributed to the Syrian regime’s vulnerability in the face of a new rebel advance. But the primary cause of President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall is that he presided over a disintegrating social contract, enabling his enemies to forge new coalitions organized around meeting the everyday needs of Syria’s people.

     explains why Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed so quickly, placing most of the blame on Assad himself.
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    Will Your Encrypted Messages Remain Private in Europe?

    Markéta Gregorová worries about a proposed regulation that would undermine a fundamental right in the digital domain.
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    The Fall of the House of Assad

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    The Middle East’s geopolitical landscape has been transformed by the swift collapse of Syria’s al-Assad dynasty. While the Iranian-led “axis of resistance” now appears hollowed out, an Islamist regime in Damascus may prove deeply unsettling not only to Israel, but also to the region’s Arab states.

     agrees with Iran’s former vice president that the Syrian regime’s collapse will transform the Middle East.
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    How Trump’s Return Could Benefit Mexico

    Guillermo Ortiz thinks the country and its new president could benefit from going back to the negotiating table with the US.
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    Choice in Dying Comes to the UK

    Peter Singer welcomes the approval of a bill that promises to empower terminally ill patients in England and Wales.
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    Did Neoliberalism Kill American Democracy?

    As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to make good on his threats to upend American institutions, the pressure is on his opponents to figure out how to defend, and eventually strengthen, US democracy. But first they must understand how the United States reached this point.

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    The Sources of Japanese Resilience

    Chris Patten emphasizes the country’s ability to avoid the divisive politics currently plaguing other liberal democracies.
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    The Global Power Vacuum Comes to Syria

    Ian Bremmer explains how external dynamics led to renewed fighting in the country's 13-year-long civil war.

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