Acemoglu

The Narrow Corridor

Nobel prize winners Acemoglu and Robinson followed up their Why Nations Fail (2012) with The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (2019).  I was not impressed with this book. The core argument of this book is not new. It may be more philosophically grounded, but in 2012 Duncan Green wrote From Poverty […]

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Power and Progress

Power and Progress

Turkish-American economist and recent Nobel prize winner, Daron Acemoglu, along with British-American economist and also recent Nobel prize winner, Simon Johnson, penned the 2023 book Power and Progress. Given the star power, one starts the book with high expectations. There are a number of books that survey the history of innovation, such as Ridley’s 2020 […]

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Logan Cochrane

Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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