The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Social Democracy
Nov 13, 2019 reflects on how the end of communism in Europe also ended the West's highly successful post-war economic model.
Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT, is co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.
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