Can liberal democracy be saved?
4/21/202628 min
Jayme sits down with Nobel laureate economist, Daron Acemoglu, a professor at MIT, and one of the leading thinkers about labour, politics and technology.
He’s the author of the best-selling book “Why Nations Fail” and the forthcoming work “What Happened to Liberal Democracy?”. They talk about the decline of western liberal democracy, the alienation of the working class, AI, and more.
This was a live conversation at a summit put on by OCAD and Toronto Metropolitan University called the Democracy Xchange.
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[upbeat music] Hey, everyone, it's Jamie. This weekend, I was invited to have a conversation with Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu. Acemoglu is a professor at MIT and one of the leading thinkers about labor, politics, and technology. His big bestselling book is Why Nations Fail. On Saturday, at this summit put on by OCAD and Toronto Metropolitan University called the Democracy Exchange, we talked about his upcoming book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy, and had a really great discussion about the decline of, well, democracy, but also about the alienation of the working class, AI, and a lot more. Have a listen.