Acemoglu became fascinated by divergent economic, political, and social outcomes across countries and by explanations of wealth and poverty disparities during his teenage years, which framed his subsequent research.
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“I got into economics because I was fascinated by what I saw around me in my very young teen years about very divergent economic, political, and social outcomes across countries, huge disparities in terms of wealth, in terms of poverty.”
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