What happened to liberal democracy?

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Join us for this conversation with Nobel Prize winner and LSE alumnus Daron Acemoglu who will talk about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? In his book, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu argues that liberal democracy flourished when it pursued its core promises of shared prosperity, democratic governance, and the free pursuit of knowledge. But liberalism, a philosophy built to challenge power, never fully adjusted to becoming the establishment. Nor was it able to deal with the economic and social disruptions that digital technologies wrought. Worse, in the postindustrial economy, liberalism turned its back on its core promises. As a segment of highly educated elites became politically dominant and separated from the rest of society, they sowed the seeds of w…

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