What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoglu

What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoglu

'A very important work and a must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century 'A thoughtful proposed solution to the most important question of modern democracy' JARED DIAMOND, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel 'Brilliant and insightful, a tour de force that left me feeling more optimistic about the future than I have in a long time' STEVEN LEVITT, author of Freakonomics From its inception, liberalism offered a glittering promise of shared prosperity, equality, democratic values and the free pursuit of knowledge. At first, it flourished. And then it faltered. Once a tantalising beacon of hope, it began to erode and decay at the hands of elitism, intolerance and rising autocracy. One could say that liberalism is broken. So what comes next? Nobel prize-winning co-author of Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu charts the rise and fall of liberal democracy, and offers hope for a way forward: a new theory that lays the groundwork for how we can - and must - remake liberalism before it's too late.

DARON ACEMOGLU is an institute professor at MIT and Faculty Co-Director of MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. He has been awarded, among others, the John Bates Clark Medal, the Nemmers Prize, the Global Economy Prize and the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is the co-author of Why Nations Fail.

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ISBN 13	9781805228646
ISBN 10	1805228641
Title	What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Author	Acemoglu Daron
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Profile Books
Year published	2026-08-20
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