Rethinking market capitalism: Innovation and the Path to Shared Prosperity

Daron Acemoglu(@DAcemogluMIT) is Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, and the American Academic of Arts and Sciences, among other learned societies. A New York Times bestselling author, he is the author of six books, including Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson), Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), and Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. The winner of numerous academic prizes, his research and writings span the fields of political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks. He received his MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics.

Peter Trubowitz(@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His research largely focuses on issues of international security and US foreign policy. His other books include Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy.