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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

Writing for PS since 2012
81 commentaries

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 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong
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    The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong

    Aug 5, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks the inordinate attention on sci-fi doomsday scenarios is distracting from more immediate risks.

  5. The Starmer Model
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    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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    Asia in Denial

    Stephen S. Roach

    Denial is among the most powerful of all human defense mechanisms, and particularly troublesome for governments. Not only is China unwilling to admit the severity of its economic problems, but many other officials across Asia seem inclined to believe that US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats are merely a bluff.

     warns of misguided optimism about the state of China’s economy and Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.
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    Holiday 2024 Reading List

    PS editors highlight recent recommendations by PS contributors that belong on your holiday shopping list.
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    Are Global Banking Rules Finished?

    Howard Davies wonders if the Basel Committee’s recommendations on minimum capital requirements will ever be implemented now.
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    Amazon Is Busting Democracy, Not Just Unions

    Christy Hoffman explains why the company’s efforts to quash labor organizing should concern everyone.
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    Europe in the Age of Trump

    Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US presidential election has left a black cloud over many of America’s friends and allies, not least in Europe. While the European Union remains the continent’s greatest strength, it will now come under growing strain from both internal and external political forces.

     about the challenges facing the continent following the US election.
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    How to End the Scourge of Maternal Mortality

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Mary-Ann Etiebet propose a global impact hub that could develop measurable milestones and scale up effective solutions.
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    Multilateralism or Bust

    Mohamed ElBaradei urges political leaders to reaffirm their commitment to international law and cooperation.
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    Trump’s Impossible Economics

    Jim O'Neill thinks the president-elect’s agenda is not only incoherent but also mathematically inconceivable.
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    Doing Development in the Polycrisis

    Yuen Yuen Ang argues that we need a fundamentally different way of thinking about our biggest global problems.

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