Power and Progress
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
A thousand years of technology and who benefited, arguing that shared prosperity requires choices, not just innovation. Timely for the AI era.
Read it if…
you want a historical lens on technology and inequality.
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Skip it if…
you want techno-optimism.
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Three things you will actually use
- Technology does not automatically share gains.
- Direction of innovation is a choice.
- Countervailing power matters.
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Read the chapters on the first industrial revolution.
Our verdict
Who benefits from technology.
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