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Episode: "Power & Progress": Professor Daron Acemoglu
Pub date: 2023-06-28

We are living in an age of incredible technological innovation. But is it actually benefitting humanity?

MIT Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have a tremendous new book on this exact question: “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity”.

Professor Daron Acemoglu joins me today.

In this podcast, we explore: • Why social scientists should pay attention to ‘vision’ • Did automation cause premature deindustrialisation? • Is firm size important? • Why did wages rise so rapidly in South Korea? • What’s caused the fall in worker power? • Why has automation increased? • How can technology be redirected?

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