"Power & Progress": Professor Daron Acemoglu
We are living in an age of incredible technologic…
ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Dr Alice Evans
June 28, 202359m 42s
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Show Notes
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?