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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The Starmer Model
The Starmer Model
Jul 9, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks the UK Labour Party’s victory holds lessons for centrist and center-left parties elsewhere.
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If Democracy Isn’t Pro-Worker, It Will Die
If Democracy Isn’t Pro-Worker, It Will Die
Jun 20, 2024 Daron Acemoglu argues that populists are making inroads because industrialized economies aren't delivering what was promised.
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Don’t Believe the AI Hype
Subscriber FavoriteDon’t Believe the AI Hype
May 21, 2024 Daron Acemoglu finds nothing to support widely cited assessments of the technology’s near-term potential.
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History Already Tells Us the Future of AI
History Already Tells Us the Future of AI
Apr 23, 2024 Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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Are We Ready for AI Creative Destruction?
Are We Ready for AI Creative Destruction?
Apr 9, 2024 Daron Acemoglu proposes three principles to ensure that the benefits of the next wave of disruptive innovation outweigh the costs.
