Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is co-author of "Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity" and ...

In addition to scholarly articles, Daron Acemoglu has published four books: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (joint with James A. Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the ...

Putin’s regime has completed its reversion from a 21st-century spin dictatorship to a 20th-century dictatorship based on fear. Unfortunately, this is what Russia will look like until he is gone ...

Economy; October 23, 2014; The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data The genesis for the data-driven society of today can be traced to socialist Chile in the 1970s.

The legacy of economic backwardness inherited from Tsarist Russia was compounded by the disastrous consequences of seven years of imperialist war (1914-17) and civil war (1918-21).

The democratic wave that toppled the Marcos dictatorship in 1986 theoretically carried with it the possibility of building something new, rather than merely restoring the pre-ML political order. In ...

Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2023), pp. 219-246 (28 pages) This study examines the effect of U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State visits to a country on institutional ...

The Trump administration’s tariff announcements revive the age-old policy of import substitution industrialization (ISI) to protect domestic industries and stimulate growth. However, ISI could ...