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"Power & Progress": Professor Daron Acemoglu

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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The Importance of Vision in Technology

"Why nations fail and the narrow corridor largely implied that each group wants to advance their self interest," he says. "I think in social science, one path of progress with all its shortcomings is you make simplifying assumptions and you push them." Why did I feel compelled to take these issues more seriously in the current book? Because I think they become so much more central when we are talking about technologies,.

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