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”