Power And Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Hachette, New York, 2023), pp. 546

This is the submission version of my review of Acemoglu and Johnson’s Power And Progress in Economic Record. The published version is available here [paywall]. To buy the book, go here. “Technological progress… leads to material abundance for everyone”, writes the entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Marc Andreesen in his Tech Optimist Manifesto, articulating a viewContinue reading “Power And Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Hachette, New York, 2023), pp. 546”