In his Farewell Letter from America, Daron Acemoglu writes about worrying developments and the need for more research This is my last Letter from America. I have enjoyed sharing my
Warning: this article mentions suicide Daron Acemoglu writes about the crisis in mental health According to many indicators, the industrialized world is going through a mental health crisis. According to
Daron Acemoglu questions optimism about the productivity gains from AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured imaginations, with the promise of human-like machines and boundless productivity growth. Some of these predictions
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 first step in a generative
Daron Acemoglu writes about the return of industrial policy in the United States Industrial policy is back. But in a very different form than before. The term refers to
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 agree on, it is that
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 book starts in the near
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 and has done a tremendous
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, and his life and times.
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 chaos and uncertainty. There are
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 US healthcare system but doubts
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 accruing to the inheritors of
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 minimum wage can sometimes increase
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 in the USA. In the
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 I first set foot in
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 wrote about ‘madmen in authority’
