Daron Acemoglu, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, is a co-author (with Simon Johnson) of "Power & Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity." This article is provided by Project Syndicate (PS).
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