Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, interviewed by Kaushik Viswanath

Daron Acemoglu is an economist and an MIT Institute Professor, the university’s highest faculty honor. Simon Johnson is the Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT and a former chief economist to the International Monetary Fund. They are the authors of Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023). Kaushik Viswanath is features editor at MIT Sloan Management Review.

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, interviewed by Kaushik Viswanath

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