ノーベル経済学賞2024
今年も、スウェーデンからおめでとうございます。
プレスカンファレンスでの、スウェーデン人レポーターの質問とその答えが、今日的にとても重要だと思いましたので取り急ぎ備忘録。
https://www.youtube.com/live/GX55YHSjZWA?feature=shared&t=1320
22分目から。
[A reporter from the Swedish Newspaper DN]
Can you comment on how you assess the current quality and current trajectory of institutions in the world, in the United States or other countries in the world, right now?
[Daron Acemoglu]
This is actually another topic that I am researching that is fascinating but worrying. If you look at data, you see that institutions everywhere, including the United States, some European countries, and many parts of the emerging world, are getting weaker and weaker. If you look at data from surveys that ask people their views about authoritarianism, dictatorship, democracy, and so on, you see that the support for democracy among the population is at an all-time low. This suggests that, despite the potential for democracy to spearhead rapid economic growth and consensus around difficult choices, we are probably not achieving its full potential. In fact, my evidence also suggests that democracies particularly underperform when populations think that they have underdelivered. They do not live up to their promises in terms of providing good governance, controlling corruption, limiting inequality … This is a time when democracy is going through a rough patch, and it is in some sense quite crucial that it reclaims the high ground of better governance, cleaner governance, and delivering on its promises to a broad range of people.