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From Another Angle: Technological Progress, with Simon Johnson

From Another Angle: Technological Progress, with Simon Johnson

FromCarnegie Council Podcasts


From Another Angle: Technological Progress, with Simon Johnson

FromCarnegie Council Podcasts

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, host Hilary Sutcliffe explores . . . technological progress from another angle. Does technology increase prosperity, make our lives better and create lots of new jobs? Or in reality does it promote greater inequality, more badly paid jobs and exploited workers, with the prosperity going to the few and not the many? Sutcliffe explores with Professor Simon Johnson the lessons of over a thousand years of technological progress and they discuss the practicalities of what he calls a more "human complementary" approach to what technology may be. Professor Johnson is an economist at MIT and co-author with colleague Daron Acemoglu of a new book, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. For more, please go to carnegiecouncil.org. 
Released:
Oct 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Listen to events at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Speakers and interviewees include distinguished authors, government and UN officials, economists, and policymakers. Topics range from the ethics of war and peace, to religion in politics, to issues at the forefront of global social justice. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.carnegiecouncil.org.