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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daron Acemoğlu is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.
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Daron Acemoğlu
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To the Point
President Trump and the 'business' of government Donald Trump may be in the White House because he promised to "shake up Washington." But did that mean capsizing basic institutions? In just two weeks, he's consolidated decision making, ignored avenues of communication and flouted traditional protocols. He's run roughshod not just over professional civil servants but secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security he's just appointed. Some conservative veterans of the George W. Bush Administration are even predicting impeachment before he can finish his term. We compare Trump's uninhibited use of executive power to what's happened in other countries where "checks and balances" were not as strong as expected.
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