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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

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The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

16.12.2024 30

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Daron Acemoglu

The Fall and Rise of American Democracy

BOSTON – It should not have come as such a surprise that US voters were largely unmoved by the Democrats’ warnings that Donald Trump poses a grave...

03.12.2024 30

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Daron Acemoglu

The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

BOSTON – These are uncertain and confusing times. Not only are we contending with pandemics, climate change, societal aging in major economies, and...

29.11.2024 50

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Daron Acemoglu

The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault

BOSTON – The outcome of the US presidential election was more of a Democratic loss than a triumph for Donald Trump. The Democrats lost not because...

12.11.2024 30

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Daron Acemoglu

Escaping the New Gilded Age

BOSTON – Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are...

27.09.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown

BOSTON – An overhauled Democratic ticket has re-energized the party and eliminated the widening polling lead that former US President Donald Trump...

30.08.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong

BOSTON – A huge industry has emerged in recent years as China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have made the safety of...

05.08.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

The Starmer Model

BOSTON – The Labour Party’s sweeping victory in the United Kingdom’s general election already holds lessons for center and center-left parties...

09.07.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

If Democracy Isn’t Pro-Worker, It Will Die

BOSTON – Even if the feared extremist wave did not quite materialize in the European Parliament election this month, the far right performed well in...

20.06.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

Don’t Believe the AI Hype

BOSTON – According to tech leaders and many pundits and academics, artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world as we know it through...

21.05.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

BOSTON – Artificial intelligence and the threat that it poses to good jobs would seem to be an entirely new problem. But we can find useful ideas...

23.04.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

Are We Ready for AI Creative Destruction?

BOSTON – The ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang attests to humans’ tendency to see patterns of interlocked opposites in the world around us,...

09.04.2024 100

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Daron Acemoglu

What It Takes to Build Democratic Institutions

BOSTON – There are plenty of good models around to help both developing and industrialized countries build better democratic institutions. But with...

16.01.2024 30

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Daron Acemoglu

Clarifying America’s Great Inequality Debate

BOSTON – Debates about inequality trends in the United States have leapt from the pages of academic journals to leading media outlets. While...

03.01.2024 30

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Daron Acemoglu

Kissinger’s Opening to China Will Haunt American Politics in 2024

BOSTON – Even harsh critics of Henry Kissinger concede that US President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 changed geopolitics forever....

15.12.2023 50

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Daron Acemoglu

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