What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
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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...
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See moreA new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
A new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
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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.
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ISBN: 9781805228646
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 640g
Pages: 416
About the Author
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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