I recommend "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson to anybody interested in the role of the state in economic development. It's hard to think of a more important question, and the ...

Why do nations rise - and why do they fail? In this special edition of The Economic Times Conversations, ET’s Executive ...

Why do some nations succeed while others fail? This video explores the key political, economic, and social factors that ...

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, we ask the winners of the 2024 Nobel prize in economics—Daron ...

An upcoming court decision could sound the death knell for Turkey’s primary opposition party. Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, in his article, “A world with two ...