Daron Acemoglu is Professor of Economics at MIT, co-author (with James A. Robinson) of  Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.
The BRICS group's planned enlargement is a missed opportunity. The world does not need more countries to fall under Chinese & Russian influence, or to align against the US, it needs a genuinely independent third grouping, argues Daron Acemoglu.
Opinion: Twenty years of US efforts to impose top-down state-building efforts - despite a society's wishes - were always destined to end in failure, writes Daron Acemoglu.
