Promotion

Use VIRGO for 15% off site wide + free shipping over $45

Power and Progress

Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Power and Progress Open the full-size image

Contributors

By Daron Acemoglu

By Simon Johnson

Read by Malcolm Hillgartner

Formats and Prices

Price

$31.99

Format

Format:

  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $31.99
  2. ebook $19.99 $25.99 CAD
  3. Hardcover $32.00 $40.00 CAD
  4. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around May 16, 2023. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Also available from:

In this bold reinterpretation of economics and history, the consequence of sole reliance on AI is revealed–as well as what must be done to redirect innovation so it benefits all.

The transformation of work by digital technologies and AI could make life better for most people, or possibly much worse—depending on the economic, social, and political choices we make. Through illuminating examples, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson fundamentally change how we see the world. Throughout the world today, digital technologies and artificial intelligence undermine jobs and democracy through excessive automation, massive data collection, and intrusive surveillance. It doesn’t have to be this way. 

Power and Progress demonstrates the path of technology, and how it might be brought under control. Cutting-edge technological advances can become empowering tools, but not if all major decisions remain in the hands of a few hubristic tech leaders. 

Genre:

On Sale
May 16, 2023
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668626405

You May Also Like

Why Politics Fails
Why Politics Fails $30.00 $38.00 CAD
The Tyranny of Experts
The Tyranny of Experts $18.99 $23.99 CAD
The Economists' Hour
The Economists' Hour $22.99 $29.99 CAD
Vanishing Frontiers
Vanishing Frontiers $28.00 $36.50 CAD
The Great Deformation
The Great Deformation $24.99 $32.49 CAD

Daron Acemoglu

About the Author

DARON ACEMOGLU is Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, the university’s highest faculty honor. For the last twenty-five years, he has been researching the historical origins of prosperity, poverty, and the effects of new technologies on economic growth, employment, and inequality. Acemoglu is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge (2005); the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in economics, finance, and management for his lifetime contributions (2016), and the Kiel Institute’s Global Economy Prize in economics (2019). He is author (with James Robinson) of The Narrow Corridor and the New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail.

Learn more about this author

Simon Johnson

About the Author

Simon Johnson is the Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT and a former chief economist to the IMF. His much-viewed opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. With law professor James Kwak, Simon is the co-author of the bestsellers 13 Bankers and White House Burning and a founder of the widely-cited economics blog The Baseline Scenario.

Learn more about this author