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    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Lunch with the FT
      Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’

      The MIT professor on how AI can benefit the workers not ‘the takers’ — and seeing the world from Trump supporters’ point of view

      A portrait illustration of Daron Acemoglu with a goatee beard, sitting in a restaurant
    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      If tech is driving the ‘productivity bandwagon’, it’s time to hit the brakes

      Throughout history, technologists have set their own narrative about the benefits they bring — Silicon Valley is no different

      Three large robots approach a bank of people working at their desks, with the first robot grasping a man and throwing him out of the window
    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      MBA
      Are CEOs with MBAs good for business?

      Bosses with business degrees can be bad for workers and wages, three academics argue

      A businessman reading g book and using a computer in a modern office
    • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Automation exacts a toll in inequality

      The Biden administration wants to mitigate the impact of tech-driven change on vulnerable workers

    • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
      Sarah O'Connor
      A decent boss can make the world of difference at work

      Job satisfaction takes many forms but beware the demoralising effects of impersonal systems for evaluating employees

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    • Thursday, 26 September, 2019
      ReviewPolitical books
      The Narrow Corridor — the fine line between despotism and anarchy

      Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson ask: how do we balance protections with liberty?

    • Monday, 6 November, 2017
      Sergei Guriev
      The Russian Revolution: what economic lessons does it reveal?

      Planned socialist alternatives to the market economy do not work

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    • Monday, 9 October, 2017
      FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
      Further reading
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2017
      Sarah O'Connor
      Robot shock threatens the most vulnerable communities

      Service sector jobs that replaced those in manufacturing are in turn at risk from AI

      Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015. Japanese firms are ramping up spending on robotics and automation, responding at last to premier Shinzo Abe's efforts to stimulate the economy and end two decades of stagnation and deflation. Picture taken July 1, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato - GF10000147208
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2017
      FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
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    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2016
      Global Economy
      Could Trump trample Turkey’s growth?

      The implications of a Trump presidency are likely to be dire for the Turkish economy

      A photo taken on July 30, 2015 shows the Trump Towers building in Istanbul.
    • Monday, 24 November, 2014
      FT DataGavin Jackson
      The power of the street
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      beyondbricsJames Crabtree
      Five chart history of post-colonial Asia
    • Thursday, 28 August, 2014
      FT AlphavilleFinancial job losses
      Yes, trade with poor countries has cost US jobs
    • Wednesday, 30 April, 2014
      FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
      Where the tech innovation goes
    • Friday, 13 September, 2013
      beyondbricsEgypt after Morsi
      Guest post: Egypt’s biggest problem is economic
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      Elitism destroys nations

      Inequality has intensified since the outbreak of the financial crisis

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      World
      West complacent over why nations fail

      Politics is too often captive to procedures and principles

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      US & Canadian companies
      Biographies and economics dominate

      Two towering figures of business and economics are among the subjects of the six finalists

    • Monday, 10 September, 2012
      Andrew Hill
      The state can aid the art of invention

      Innovators should occasionally welcome government intervention

    • Wednesday, 15 August, 2012
      The World blogEsther Bintliff
      Late summer reading
    • Wednesday, 8 August, 2012
      FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
      A reading list to reflect loss of faith in capitalism

      The state of the US economic model dominates the longlist

    • Thursday, 22 March, 2012
      Markets InsightGillian Tett
      Investors must get a grip on ‘granny tax’ rows

      Social cohesion is key factor in successful sovereign markets

    • Saturday, 3 March, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The wealth of nations

      Do political institutions hold the key to a country’s economic success?

    • Friday, 24 February, 2012
      FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
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