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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor at MIT. He is coauthor, with James A. Robinson, of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Find him on Twitter @DrDaronAcemoglu.

Articles

AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.

Daron Acemoglu

Forums

AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.

Daron Acemoglu

Forum Responses

Final response: It is not too late to put technology to work to create jobs and opportunities and to support individual freedom and democracy.
Daron Acemoglu
Politics is indeed a major factor in the plight of American workers. But the challenges they face are more multifaceted and in some ways different than the ones Dean Baker describes. Baker...
Daron Acemoglu
What’s not to like about charitable giving based on quantitative evidence and aimed at maximum impact? Actually, I have a few misgivings. First, on individuals and institutions: although greater altruistic feeling and behavior...
Daron Acemoglu

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