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By Daron Acemoglu - Mar 13,2021
BOSTON — Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic still is not even in sight.
By Daron Acemoglu - Mar 04,2021
BOSTON – Efforts in the United States to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour have gained steam now that the Democratic Party controls the White House and Congress.
By Daron Acemoglu - Feb 08,2021
CAMBRIDGE — The first months of US President Joe Biden’s administration will be defined by the efforts to contain COVID-19 and deliver vaccinations on a mass scale. Over the medium term, however, the economy will determine the administration’s success.
By Daron Acemoglu - Jan 23,2021
BOSTON — The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history.
By Daron Acemoglu - Jan 11,2021
BOSTON — With US President-elect Joe Biden’s imminent inauguration and the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations, there is growing optimism for an economic rebound in 2021.
By Daron Acemoglu - Dec 12,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Having diminished America’s global role while refusing to accept China’s growing clout, Donald Trump’s presidency represents the last gasp of a unipolar epoch.
By Daron Acemoglu - Oct 05,2020
CAMBRIDGE — When US President Donald Trump spoke of “American carnage” during his inauguration speech in January 2017, few could have known that he was offering a preview of what would follow over the next four years.
By Daron Acemoglu - Sep 21,2020
CAMBRIDGE — To the interwar generation of the first half of the twentieth century, today’s crises would have appeared rather ordinary.
By Daron Acemoglu - Aug 31,2020
BOSTON — The low-wage workers who make up nearly half of the US workforce have long been neglected, steadily falling behind highly educated workers in expanding industries such as technology, finance and entertainment.
By Daron Acemoglu - Aug 05,2020
CAMBRIDGE — It is always worth remembering that in the grand sweep of history, we are the fortunate ones. Thomas Hobbes’s description of life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” was apt for most of human history. Not anymore.
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