Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnsonoverturn 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.

Throughout history, technological change - whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a m...