James Robinson on What It Looks Like When a State is Failing
The third and last episode from our Chicago live show is with James Robinson, a professor at the University of Chicago and a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics (which he shared with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson). His most famous work is 2012’s Why Nations Fail, and in that book he and his co-author Acemoglu document the institutional factors — whether it is reliably run elections…
We haven't written up this one. Bloomberg has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
