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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. Will We Squander the AI Opportunity?
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    Will We Squander the AI Opportunity?

    Feb 19, 2025 Daron Acemoglu worries that the technology is on track to disempower, rather than complement, most of humanity.

  2. A Sputnik Moment for AI?
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Feb 4, 2025 Daron Acemoglu considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Developing Countries Need a New Strategy

    Rabah Arezki touts industrial policies that welcome multinational corporations' participation, but on fairer terms.
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    How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check

    Anne-Marie Slaughter outlines five steps that foreign entities should take to counteract the US president’s radical agenda.
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    How Trumpism Ends

    Chris Patten urges current and former policymakers to speak out against the US president’s reckless policies.
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    Inside Turkey’s Executive Coup

    Umut Özkırımlı

    It is too soon to tell whether the current wave of popular anger and disillusionment in Turkey will evolve into a coherent movement capable of mounting a credible opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But one thing should be obvious to the main opposition party: When the game is rigged, the only hope is to flip the board.

     explains why popular resistance to the Erdoğan regime has sidelined the opposition parties.
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    Can COP30 Succeed Where COP29 Failed?

    Montek Singh Ahluwalia says that the future of climate action depends on developed countries exceeding their financial pledges.
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    America’s Many Chip Vulnerabilities

    Edoardo Campanella & John Haigh explain why the Trump administration is making a strategic mistake with its approach to semiconductors.
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    What Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Getting Wrong

    Lori Wallach laments the Democratic Party’s misguided criticism of a potentially effective policy tool.
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    Europe’s Security Depends on a European Energy Union

    Ana Palacio advocates a pragmatic approach to reviving the EU’s competitiveness and bolstering its strategic autonomy.
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    Authoritarianism Is Turkey’s Biggest Economic Risk

    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan

    More than just a popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu is a national symbol of the political pluralism and democratic possibility that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to quash. Given the precarious state of the Turkish economy, his sudden arrest and imprisonment may prove to be the last straw.

     believes the current mass protests are about more than the arrest of the country’s leading opposition figure.

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