Postponed: Starr Forum: The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Tuesday, April 07, 2020 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Postponed
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A book talk with Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, Department of Economics at MIT
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. The book is co-authored by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, the authors of Why Nations Fail.
About the speaker:
Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. His research interests include: political economy, economic development, economic growth, technology, income and wage inequality.
Books signed and sold at the event.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Press Bookstore
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
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