Daron Acemoglu
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 16 Jan
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Bloomberg Talks · Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Daron Acemoglu Talks Theory of Trump · 16 Jan 2026
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They want to be subject to U.S.
law if there's a dispute.
This is a very dynamic entrepreneurial economy.
Why?
People think that if they're successful, they're going to be able to take on the biggest companies and build their own business.
Again, that depends on institutions.
In many of the countries around the world, you see that incumbents crush every bit of competition.
So if we start damaging that,
the secret source of the U.S.
economy would be heavily damaged too.
Yeah, well, we are something else.
I don't know where we're going.
I mean, state institutions are, state capitalism is what people used to call China.
Well, we're getting close to that.
Don't tempt me.
You know, every slide I put up, you know, he objected to something. Oh, look, assumption two. No, if you change that, that result wouldn't follow. He was that guy. Yeah, exactly. Who's this really irritating guy?
Then the seminar ends, and the chairman kind of introduces me, oh, this is Daron Asamoblu, you know, he's going to come to dinner. I was like, oh, seriously? Now they have to bring the guy to dinner?
He looks at me and he says, have you read this paper by North and Weingast? And I had read the paper. And then, what do you think about it?
You know, I grew up in the colonial world. It's not like rocket science. You know, you might think in retrospect to think that colonialism might have had something to do with the relative poverty of the Caribbean. OK, but no one talked about that in economics, like zero discussion.
It was amazing how sort of fringe a lot of these ideas were, basically because it's just not presented in the way that mainstream economists do research.
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