Power And Progress by Daron Acemoğlu
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
This book argues that technological change is not an inevitable force but is shaped by political power and institutions, so whether innovation produces broad prosperity or concentrated extraction depends on who controls the levers of society. Drawing on history and contemporary debates, it explains how inclusive political and economic arrangements have channeled technology to improve living standards while extractive systems have allowed elites to capture benefits, and it calls for active public policies and democratic checks to steer modern technologies toward shared gains rather than reinforcing inequality.
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- 2024
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