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Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work on institutions and prosperity; author of Why Nations Fail.

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Unequal DemocracyBook Larry M Bartels

recommended

That’s what Larry Bartels’s book, Unequal Democracy, is about.

Five Books interview: the best books on Inequality

2011-09-14·fivebooks.com ↗

13 BankersBook James Kwak & Simon Johnson

recommended

The finance industry is the best exhibit for that story, and 13 Bankers tells that story wonderfully.

Five Books interview: the best books on Inequality

2011-09-14·fivebooks.com ↗

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