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Many congratulations to @anniemcc.bsky.social, whose book, Beneath the Wage, has been shortlisted for the @deutscherprize.bsky.social, which honors the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition.
Learn more about the book here: buff.ly/aYxYcgq
![The timing is also curious, coinciding with the publication of my new book, "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?" The book explores aspects of liberal philosophy, the origins of liberal democracy's past successes, its current crisis, and what kind of new governing philosophy could re-energise liberalism. The Economist's review of the book, published at the same time as the article, is dismissive and declares that it
"grapple[s] with the question of how AI will shape the future" ("Man's best frenemy", August 17th). In fact, only half a chapter is about Al and democracy. It is hard not to interpret this as a strategic framing, intended to obfuscate the message of my book and bring it to The Economist's favourite topic of defending and boosting Al
If this is the best you can do with a body of work spanning 33 years, then it is your critique that is "oddly unconvincing."
DARON ACEMOGLU
Institute professor
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tb2bwzxom5qv4542ru3zqcgu/bafkreiexoil22cbhpfb3r54hjxfsp7x5txid42tzc4lj64dzp7wc72742i)
