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Results for 'daron acemoglu'
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Prisoners of Geography
The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, now fully updated with brand new content to reflect the changing global geopolitical landscape since it was first published in 2015
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Why Nations Fail
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and PovertyWhy are some nations more prosperous than others? This book sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. It explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity.
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Icarus Economics
From the acclaimed co-author of Why Empires Fall, a bold vision for how to put Western economies back on a sustainable footing.
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Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity | Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for EconomicsA bold new interpretation of why technology has all too often benefited elites - and how we must reshape the path of innovation to create true shared prosperity.
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Tyranny of the Minority
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election'Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy' Zack Beauchamp, Vox--------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened - and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a wealth of examples - from the Capitol riots to Edwardian Britain, from 1930s France to present-day Thailand - to explore right-wing efforts to undermine the very foundations of the American political system, and to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy.With its attention on factors from election losses to demographic change and voting rights, its urgent call for a reform of our politics to balance the need for majority rule with the need for minority protections, and a citizens' movement to put enough pressure on lawmakers to act before it's too late, Tyranny of the Minority is a must-read for everyone keen to see more vibrant democracy - and to understand where future threats may come from.--------------------------------------'Just like their previous work, this book is concise, readable, and convincing' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy'An exceptionally perceptive and wide-ranging book . . . [that lays] out an ambitious fifteen-plank project of democratic renewal' Lawrence Douglas, TLS
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Why Politics Fails
From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us. This is why. 'Brilliant . . . a must-read' Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations FailWhen it comes to politics, there are five goals that voters generally agree upon. We all want a say in how we're governed, to be treated equally, a safety net when times are hard, protection from harm and to be richer in the future. So, why does politics not deliver that?The problem is each of these five goals results in a political trap. For example, we all want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any true 'will of the people'. And we want to be richer tomorrow, but what makes us richer in the short run makes us poorer over the long haul.In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell draws on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit to vividly illustrate how we can escape these traps, overcome self-interest and deliver on our collective goals. Politics seems to be broken, but this book shows how it can work for everyone.'A meticulous study of how different societies find it so difficult to achieve widely shared goals' Financial Times'Incisive and gripping' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die'Salutary reading for the world we live in now' James A. Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fails
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The Narrow Corridor
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that countries rise and fall based not on culture, geography, or chance, but on the power of their institutions. In their new book, they build a new theory about liberty and how to achieve it, drawing a wealth of evidence from both current affairs and disparate threads of world history. Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most places and at most times, the strong have dominated the weak and human freedom has been quashed by force or by customs and norms. Either states have been too weak to protect individuals from these threats, or states have been too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. Liberty emerges only when a delicate and precarious balance is struck between state and society. There is a Western myth that political liberty is a durable construct, arrived at by a process of "enlightenment." This static view is a fantasy, the authors argue. In reality, the corridor to liberty is narrow and stays open only via a fundamental and incessant struggle between state and society: The authors look to the American Civil Rights Movement, Europe's early and recent history, the Zapotec civilization circa 500 BCE, and Lagos's efforts to uproot corruption and institute government accountability to illustrate what it takes to get and stay in the corridor. But they also examine Chinese imperial history, colonialism in the Pacific, India's caste system, Saudi Arabia's suffocating cage of norms, and the "Paper Leviathan" of many Latin American and African nations to show how countries can drift away from it, and explain the feedback loops that make liberty harder to achieve. Today we are in the midst of a time of wrenching destabilization. We need liberty more than ever, and yet the corridor to liberty is becoming narrower and more treacherous. The danger on the horizon is not "just" the loss of our political freedom, however grim that is in itself; it is also the disintegration of the prosperity and safety that critically depend on liberty. The opposite of the corridor of liberty is the road to ruin.
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Redesigning AI
Artificial intelligence will not create superintelligence anytime soon. But it is already making huge advances—revolutionizing medicine and transport, transforming jobs and markets, and reshaping the fabric of social life. At the same time, the promises of AI have been increasingly overshadowed by its perils, from automation and disinformation to powerful new forms of bias and surveillance. Reckoning with these threats to work, democracy, and justice, Redesigning AI asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.Leading off a forum, economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu argues that though the challenges are dire, the future is not inevitable. Respondents debate the precise role new technology plays in economic inequality, the wide range of algorithmic harms facing workers and citizens, and other concrete steps that can be taken to ensure a just future for AI. Other contributors explore the impact of new technology in domains from medicine to carework, the nature of skills training in a rapidly changing economy, and the ethical case for not building certain forms of AI in the first place. Together they sketch an urgent vision for redirecting the course of technological change for good.
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Die Entwicklungen des BIP (Bruttoinlandsprodukt) in Chile und Mexiko. Wirtschaftswachstum und Institutionen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Ökonomie, Note: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Regierungschef Mexikos Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) betont immer wieder, dass ¿die Politik über der Wirtschaft stehen muss.¿ (Blomeier, Beck, Téllez 2019). Was mit der Aussage genau gemeint ist, bleibt zwar unklar, gibt aber eine Idee darüber, wie die mexikanische Politik gegenüber der Wirtschaft eingestellt sein könnte. Politische Ökonomie geht davon aus, dass Politik und Ökonomie sich gegenseitig bedingen und nicht getrennt voneinander betrachtet werden können. Obrador sieht die Ursache für soziale Ungleichheit in der Privatwirtschaft, weshalb er eine anti-neoliberalistische Haltung vertritt. Er mag so ziemlich das Gegenteil vom rechtskonservativen Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique sein. Der chilenische Staatschef folgt konsequent der neoliberalen Kultur, durch die das Land seit der Diktatur Augusto Pinochets (1973-1990) geprägt ist. Die sogenannten Chicago Boys, die die Militärdiktatur damals berieten, brachten einen marktradikalen Neoliberalismus nach Chile und verringerten mit weitreichenden Privatisierungen den Einfluss des Staates. Neben sozialer Ungleichheit hatten die Maßnahmen vor allem ein erhöhtes Wirtschaftswachstum zur Folge. Piñera war, bevor er 2010 zum ersten Mal zum Präsidenten von Chile gewählt wurde, vor allem erfolgreicher Unternehmer. Anfang der 1990er Jahre tritt er der rechtskonservativen Renovación Nacional bei, die mit dem Diktator Pinochet sympathisiert. ¿Piñera selbst hat dessen Menschenrechtsverbrechen verurteilt, die Wirtschaftspolitik aber gelobt.¿ (Caspari 2017). Aus wirtschaftlicher Perspektive gilt Chile heute als das Musterland Lateinamerikas (vgl. Caspari 2017). Mexiko hingegen als Problemkind. Das sind Label, die nicht erst 2018 mit den Amtseintritten von Piñera und Obrador vergeben wurden, sondern sie sind das Ergebnis eines sich über Jahrhunderte entwickelnden Prozesses. Dabei haben beide Staaten ähnliche Kontextbedingungen und zeigten jahrelang eine ähnlich verlaufende wirtschaftliche Entwicklungskurve. Bis Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts, als die Wachstumskurve Chiles die Mexikos schneidet und übersteigt. Anliegen der vorliegenden Ausarbeitung ist es zu erklären, welche Faktoren dazu führen, dass Wachstum in einem Land ansteigt und welche Faktoren dieses verhindern.
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The Narrow Corridor
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that countries rise and fall based not on culture, geography, or chance, but on the power of their institutions. In their new book, they build a new theory about liberty and how to achieve it, drawing a wealth of evidence from both current affairs and disparate threads of world history. Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most places and at most times, the strong have dominated the weak and human freedom has been quashed by force or by customs and norms. Either states have been too weak to protect individuals from these threats, or states have been too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. Liberty emerges only when a delicate and precarious balance is struck between state and society. There is a Western myth that political liberty is a durable construct, arrived at by a process of "enlightenment." This static view is a fantasy, the authors argue. In reality, the corridor to liberty is narrow and stays open only via a fundamental and incessant struggle between state and society: The authors look to the American Civil Rights Movement, Europe's early and recent history, the Zapotec civilization circa 500 BCE, and Lagos's efforts to uproot corruption and institute government accountability to illustrate what it takes to get and stay in the corridor. But they also examine Chinese imperial history, colonialism in the Pacific, India's caste system, Saudi Arabia's suffocating cage of norms, and the "Paper Leviathan" of many Latin American and African nations to show how countries can drift away from it, and explain the feedback loops that make liberty harder to achieve. Today we are in the midst of a time of wrenching destabilization. We need liberty more than ever, and yet the corridor to liberty is becoming narrower and more treacherous. The danger on the horizon is not "just" the loss of our political freedom, however grim that is in itself; it is also the disintegration of the prosperity and safety that critically depend on liberty. The opposite of the corridor of liberty is the road to ruin.
€ 16,50 -
The Narrow Corridor
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'This book is more original and exciting than its predecessor...the highly influential Why Nations Fail' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesBy the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.Liberty is hardly the 'natural' order of things; usually states have been either too weak to protect individuals or too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. There is also a happy Western myth that where liberty exists, it's a steady state, arrived at by 'enlightenment'. But liberty emerges only when a delicate and incessant balance is struck between state and society - between elites and citizens. This struggle becomes self-reinforcing, inducing both state and society to develop a richer array of capacities, thus affecting the peacefulness of societies, the success of economies and how people experience their daily lives.Explaining this new framework through compelling stories from around the world, in history and from today - and through a single diagram on which the development of any state can be plotted - this masterpiece helps us understand the past and present, and analyse the future.'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared Diamond
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Currency Wars. Fifth Anniversary Edition
Trade paperback. A fifth anniversary edition of Rickards' assessment of currency wars being as dangerous now as they were in the seventies, updated in relation to the Trump era. *Also appeared in February Buyer's Notes*
€ 18,50