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Power and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity Cover Image Book Book

Power and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity / Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.

Acemoglu, Daron, (author.). Johnson, Simon, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781541702530
  • ISBN: 1541702530
  • Physical Description: vii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-516) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
What is progress? -- Control over technology -- Canal vision -- Power to persuade -- Cultivating misery -- A middling sort of revolution -- Casualties of progress -- The contested path -- Digital damage -- Artificial struggle -- Democracy breaks -- Redirecting technology.
Summary, etc.:
"Two bestselling authors 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Economic aspects.
Progress.

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