Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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"Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" is a historical and economic analysis that examines how technological advances have shaped inequality, political power, and shared prosperity over the past millennium.
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book
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economics book → history book → non-fiction book → |
| arguesThat |
institutions and power structures shape who benefits from new technologies
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societies can redirect technology toward more inclusive outcomes → technological progress does not automatically lead to broad-based prosperity → |
| author |
Daron Acemoglu
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Simon Johnson → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| criticizes |
economic policies that prioritize automation over worker empowerment
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techno-optimism that assumes automatic social benefits from innovation → |
| examines |
20th-century mass production and automation
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Industrial Revolution technologies → digital technologies and artificial intelligence → medieval agricultural innovations → |
| focusesOn |
distributional consequences of innovation
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political struggles over the gains from technology → relationship between technological change and inequality → |
| genre |
economic history
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history of technology → political economy → |
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audiobook
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ebook → hardcover → |
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9781541702530
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| intendedAudience |
academics in economics and political science
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general readers interested in economics and history → policymakers → |
| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
economic inequality
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political power → shared prosperity → technology → |
| notableFor |
linking AI policy debates to historical patterns of technological change
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long-run historical perspective on technology and inequality → |
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New York City
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| proposes |
policy reforms to steer AI and digital technologies toward shared prosperity
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| publicationDate |
2023
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PublicAffairs
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| relatedWork |
Power and Progress (short title)
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Why Nations Fail → |
| shortTitle |
Power and Progress
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| timeSpanCovered |
last thousand years
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| title |
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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Daron Acemoglu
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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