--- title: "Retooling to help democracy revive" url: https://daily.dev/posts/retooling-to-help-democracy-revive-fidzh4lqw source_url: https://news.mit.edu/2026/retooling-to-help-democracy-revive-daron-acemoglu-book-0826 type: article source: "MIT News" published: 2026-08-26T04:02:31.164Z updated: 2026-08-26T04:22:54.686Z tags: ["automation"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Retooling to help democracy revive **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT economist Daron Acemoglu's new book, 'What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity,' argues that deindustrialization and computer-driven automation since the 1970s split the workforce into well-paid college-educated workers and struggling less-educated ones, fueling political polarization and weakening democratic institutions. He calls for rebuilding 'working-class liberalism' — coalitions centered on shared prosperity, jobs, and public services — to reinvigorate democracy, while cautioning against top-down social engineering and neat 'social contract' solutions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Extinction-level capitalism](https://daily.dev/posts/extinction-level-capitalism-0kfgcq5ai) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Exploring the societal impacts of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/exploring-the-societal-impacts-of-ai-oyul5ooue) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Dead Economy Theory](https://daily.dev/posts/the-dead-economy-theory-sexfomwnb) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy](https://daily.dev/posts/historian-jill-lepore-says-silicon-valley-misreads-science-fiction-and-undermines-democracy-ckoucyvdo) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/retooling-to-help-democracy-revive-fidzh4lqw)