For The Economist, Mentioning Workers’ Interests Is Heresy

Daron Acemoglu, winner in 2024 of the so-called Nobel Prize in economics, has just published a new book, ? Now  — the paper, founded in 1843, that stands as the epitome of free trade and economic liberalism — has seized on the opportunity to settle a . In a piece that has taken everyone by surprise, it leveled a scattering of theoretical criticisms at Acemoglu’s work and, above all, called into question the standing of a highly regarded economist. Perhaps the clearest evidence is that declares…