Daron Acemoglu

Writing for PS since 2012
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Daron Acemoglu is Professor of Economics at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty.

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Is State Capitalism Winning?

Paul Lachine

Dec 31, 2012 Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

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What We Owe Egypt

Paul Lachine

May 1, 2012 Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

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Captured Europe

Paul Lachine

Mar 20, 2012 Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

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The Trump Contagion

Mar 25, 2019 Jeffrey D. Sachs, et al. recommend five urgent steps to counter the grave threat the US president poses to global security.

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How to Govern a Digitally Networked World

Mar 25, 2019 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Fadi Chehadé propose a decentralized global system for managing the potential and risks of digital technologies.

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Humanitarian Markets

Mar 25, 2019 Ricardo Hausmann explains why food and medical aid for countries in crisis should be sold, not given, to those in need.

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The Fed Board Unmoored

Mar 25, 2019 J. Bradford DeLong plumbs the depths of Stephen Moore's incompetence to oversee US monetary policy.

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Truly Taking Back Control

Mar 25, 2019 Raghuram G. Rajan says devolving power to economically depressed communities could make virulent nationalism less appealing.

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The Economic Consequences of Global Uncertainty

Mar 25, 2019 Michael Spence enumerates the technological, political, and institutional disruptions that are currently undermining growth.

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Brexit and the Speaker’s Tale

Mar 22, 2019 Marion Turner suggests that Geoffrey Chaucer would have welcomed the current frenzied debate in the UK House of Commons.

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The Rich Can Fight Inequality, Too

Mar 22, 2019 Kaushik Basu urges wealthy people who support left-wing causes to reject accusations of hypocrisy meant to silence them.

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