Letter from America
Letter from America: Will AI remake or destroy education?
Daron Acemoglu describes four possible futures for AI in education In the decades to come, late 2022 and early 2023 may be remembered as a
October 11, 2023
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Daron Acemoglu describes four possible futures for AI in education In the decades to come, late 2022 and early 2023 may be remembered as a
Daron Acemoglu writes about the return of industrial policy in the United States Industrial policy is back. But in a very different form than
Daron Acemoglu on the challenges of modern innovation for society and economic theory. If there is one thing on which economists and the American public
Despite its utopian elements, Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci-fi bestseller, Ministry for the Future, does not make easy reading, especially if you are an economist. The
This is my first Letter from America and, admittedly, I have some big shoes to fill. Angus Deaton is a true luminary of our profession
After twenty-five years of writing for the Newsletter, Sir Angus Deaton contributes his final Letter from America, in which he reflects on past Letters, economics,
In his latest Letter, Angus argues that it may take multiple crises to change ‘a deeply broken economic and political system.’ America is full of
In this Letter from America Angus reports that the coronavirus pandemic has sharpened the already urgent debate between candidates in the Democratic primaries about the
In his latest Letter, Sir Angus shows how the benefits of meritocratic educational systems can be abused, leaving the beneficiaries with privileges reminiscent of those
The recent death of Alan Krueger prompts Angus Deaton to reflect on the reception accorded to the suggestion, more than twenty years ago, that a
In his latest Letter from America, Angus looks to the history of nineteenth century Britain as an antidote to the despair caused by recent developments
Angus contrasts current attitudes in the USA towards intellectuals and immigrants with those of the founding fathers. America can seem very strange to foreigners. When
In his latest letter, Angus Deaton laments the recent passing of four economists who made a great impression on him. In my last letter, I
In his latest letter, Angus Deaton exposes the incoherence of the Trump administration’s attempts to reform health care in the USA (as well as its
In which Angus compares the experience of dealing with the UK and US pension authorities and discovers that while some are worse than others, ‘…
In this, his fortieth Letter from America, Angus reflects on some of the lesser-known consequences of being a Nobel laureate. In these letters, which now
