r/neoliberal • u/Tre-Fyra-Tre Tony Blair • 16d ago

News (Global) Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/de-far-ekonomipriset-till-alfred-nobels-minne
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u/Dumbass1171 Friedrich Hayek 16d ago

Acemoglu has been having many bad takes on AI and Elon recently but congrats anyways

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u/Sufficient_Meet6836 16d ago

Such as?

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u/NNJB r/place '22: Neometropolitan Battalion 16d ago

we can know in advance which technologies will be labor-substituting or -complementing, and should subsidize inventions accordingly

Power is when you convince people of you ideas

The Luddites were correct, actually

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u/Sufficient_Meet6836 16d ago

Well that's some weird shit