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With widening inequality fueling populist anger, and AI threatening to displace human labor, Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT recently sat down with political philosopher Michael Sandel of Harvard to discuss how democracy can be revitalized before the damage becomes irreversible. Their wide-ranging conversation explores the dark side of meritocracy, the limits of markets, the meaning of freedom, and the tightening grip of tech companies on the public sphere. Read the written version of this Insider Interview on our website: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/saving-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai-by-daron-acemoglu-and-michael-j-sandel-2026-03 Keep up to date with PS films by subscribing to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/project-syndicate ******************************************************************** For more PS, join the conversation on... Our website: www.project-syndicate.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/projectsyndicate Twitter: www.twitter.com/prosyn LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/project-syndicate SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/projectsyndicate
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024. Acemoglu ...
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