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Power and Progress Our Thousand-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Paperback • 2023 • English

Power and Progress Our Thousand-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu

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Throughout history, technological change - whether in 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...Show more

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9781399804462

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

Power and Progress Our Thousand-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

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Paperback

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