Author

Daron Acemoglu

DARON ACEMOGLU is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1993. One of the world’s most frequently cited economists, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024. He is a co-author of Why Nations Fail (with James A. Robinson) and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson).

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How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises

A Conversation With Daron Acemoglu

Podcast December 18, 2025

The End of Democratic Capitalism?

How Inequality and Insecurity Fueled a Crisis in the West

Review Essay July/Aug 2023

Trump Won’t Be the Last American Populist

The Conditions That Produced Him Need to Be Understood to Be Addressed

November 6, 2020

America’s Democratic Unraveling

Countries Fail the Same Way Businesses Do, Gradually and Then Suddenly

June 15, 2020

The Coronavirus Exposed America’s Authoritarian Turn

Independent Expertise Always Dies First When Democracy Recedes

March 23, 2020

The Failed Autocrat

Despite Erdogan’s Ruthlessness, Turkey’s Democracy Is Still on Track

May 22, 2014