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Conversations with Tyler · 2026-08-12 · 56 min · 9,718 words

Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite

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Enhanced with helpful links. Visit conversationswithler.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm honored to be sitting here with Darren Asamoglu. He is, of course, Nobel laureate in economics, but

arguably the best published and by some measures the best cited economist in the world. But most importantly he has a new book out. What happened to liberal democracy? This is a major work. I think of it as an attempt.

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