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Daron Acemoglu

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. Are High-Skill Immigrants a Problem?
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    Are High-Skill Immigrants a Problem?

    Jan 9, 2025 Daron Acemoglu highlights some underappreciated risks of policies like the United States’ H-1B visa program.

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

    Dec 16, 2024 Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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