Bibliograph

Power and progress, our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

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Power and progress, our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-516) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power and progress

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1358405566

Responsibility statement

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

Sub title

our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

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