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Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions.
He and co-author James Robinson wrote about the subject in their 2012 book “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty.” Acemoglu speaks with Here & Now‘s Scott Tong about why the undermining of institutions and experts could lead to economic instability in the country.
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