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Books by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Daron Acemoglu is an economist at MIT who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 for research on how institutions shape prosperity and development. James A. Robinson is a political scientist and economist at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Together they have spent two decades building an institutional theory of political and economic development, producing Why Nations Fail as well as a substantial body of academic research. The Narrow Corridor represents their most ambitious synthesis, extending the institutional framework to the specific conditions under which liberty can survive.