Screen LibraryPower and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /
"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"--
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PublicAffairs,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-516) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781541702530 1541702530 |
| Index Number: | T14 |
| CLC: | T-05 |
| Call Number: | T-05/A173 |
| Contents: | Prologue: 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. |