Daron Acemoglu - Author

Daron Acemoglu

Contributor, The Yuan

Daron Acemoglu, a professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.

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The Right Way to Worry

The sway of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when an asteroid crashed into Chicxulub in Mexico. If a similar asteroid were to crash into Earth today, it would cause another mass-extinction event. This should concern us now and in the coming century.

Daron Acemoglu | Jul 22, 2021