In an 1887 letter to Bishop Creighton, English politician Lord Acton famously noted, ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute ...

Migrants have become a flashpoint in global politics. But new research by an MIT political scientist, focused on West Germany ...

Daron Acemoglu is not surprised that so many voters ignored warnings about the threat Donald Trump poses to US institutions.

AI can make people less empathetic and more self-centered, impacting fields such as customer service that depend on genuine ...

The influential study by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson examines how colonial-era institutions continue to shape economic ...

Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.

James Robinson, a University of Chicago professor, was one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize for economics this year.

There has been another addition to President Bola Tinubu’s media team. The president has also restructured his media team in a bid to “ ...

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson for their work on institutions. The writer is an academic and researcher. He is also the author of Development, Poverty, ...

Whereas, After the first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims broke bread, gave thanks, and celebrated in Plymouth, observing the ...