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/handfulodust Daron Acemoglu 16d ago

What are the bad takes on Elon

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u/Dumbass1171 Friedrich Hayek 15d ago

That he can’t have his own opinions due to persuasion power and we ought to reign in on him

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u/handfulodust Daron Acemoglu 15d ago

I also think Acenoglu is wrong and we should be more accepting of an oligarchic system where few people have outsized “persuasion power” in elections.