Power and Progress : Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity

Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson

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Edité par PublicAffairs, New York, 2024

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PublicAffairs, September 2024. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed on title page "Dave, Thank you for your service" by Simon Johnson, otherwise pristine inside and out. xv + 546 pages. Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world. Throughout history, technological change -- whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence -- has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism through an account of how technological choices have changed the course of history. From stories of how the economic surplus of the Middle Ages was appropriated by an ecclesiastical elite to build cathedrals while the peasants starved, to the making of vast fortunes from digital technologies today as millions are pushed towards poverty, we see how the path of technology is determined and who influences its trajectory. To achieve the true potential of innovation, we need to ensure technology is creating new jobs and opportunities rather than marginalizing most people, through automated work and political passivity. We need to use the tremendous digital advances of the last half century to create useful and empowering tools, and seize back control from a small elite of hubristic, messianic tech leaders pursuing their own interests.…

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Titre
Power and Progress : Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity
Auteur
Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson
Éditeur
PublicAffairs, New York
Année de publication
2024
État de l'article
Near Fine
Signé
Inscribed by Author(s)
Reliure
Trade Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1541702549
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781541702547
Impression
3rd Printing
Poids de l'article
1,2 livre
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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