As the presidential election comes down to the wire , Quartz spoke with Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who last month won the Nobel Prize in Economics with colleagues Daron Acemoglu, also of MIT, and James A. Robinson, of the University of Chicago. Their work focuses on how countries become prosperous. Quartz spoke on Friday with Johnson about former President Donald Trump’s economic plans . This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for

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