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Power and progress

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Every day we hear that thanks to unprecedented achievements in science and technology, we are racing full steam ahead to a new, better world. Here's a new phone. And here's the latest electric car. Just a little more - and scientists will find a way to cure cancer, solve the problem of global warming and, perhaps, even eradicate poverty!

Innovations have become an end in themselves for us, new technologies must be introduced by everyone, always, everywhere. And the more, the better!

This has happened to humanity more than once. But universal well-being and prosperity never came. On the contrary, too many inventions have brought humanity only troubles and deprivations.
So what is progress? Is it always justified? Who brings the main dividends? And most importantly, how does it fit with power?

The author of the bestseller "Why are some countries rich and others poor" Daron Acemoglu, co-authored with Simon Johnson, gives answers to these and many other questions in his new book "Power and Progress".
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