Power and Progress by Daron acemoglu
- Publisher: ENGLISH GENERAL BOOKS
- Availability: In Stock
- SKU: 60031
- Number of Pages: 560
Rs.750.00
Rs.995.00
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
Binding: Paperback
Paper Quality: A+ Quality High (Equal to Original)
Category: Economics / Technology / History
Recommended For: Economics students, policymakers, history buffs, tech critics, and readers of Sapiens or Why Nations Fail.
Key Points
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Historical Perspective on Technology – Explores 1,000 years of technological progress and its impact on prosperity distribution.
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Who Benefits From Innovation? – Challenges the belief that all technological advancement is automatically beneficial.
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Inequality and Power – Analyzes how elites have often used new technology to entrench their power at the cost of the majority.
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Call to Action – Advocates for democratic control and public policy that aligns tech progress with shared prosperity.
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Written by Experts – From the co-authors of Why Nations Fail, both leading economists at MIT.