Daron Acemoglu (1967-)


Power and progress

our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity

Acemoglu, Daron | POWER AND PROGRESS : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781399804462

Boken utforskar hur teknologisk förändring påverkar makt och samhälle, och utmanar illusionen av framsteg för de flesta.

  • Power and Progress utforskar teknikens påverkan på samhälle och ekonomi.

  • Daron Acemoglu och Simon Johnson avlivar myten om teknologisk framsteg.

  • Utgiven som häftat band, 2023.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: John Murray
ISBN: 9781399804462

Omfång: 561
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2023-05-18

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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 illusion of progress. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism through a dazzling, original account of how technological choices have changed the course of history. From vivid 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, rather than "so-so" technologies that replace workers but fail to improve productivity, seizing back control from a small elite of hubristic, messianic tech leaders pursuing their own interests. With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for building a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the understanding and vision to reimagine and reshape the path of technology and create true shared prosperity.

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Boken 'Power and Progress' utforskar hur teknologisk förändring genom historien har påverkat samhälle och ekonomi, och hur dessa förändringar ofta har gynnat de redan mäktiga.

Centrala teman inkluderar teknikens påverkan på ekonomisk utveckling, marginalisering av breda massor samt vikten av att forma teknologiska framsteg så att de gynnar hela samhället.

Boken är utgiven av John Murray, har 561 sidor, är på engelska, utkom den 18 maj 2023 och finns i formatet häftat band, i ny skick.

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