Power and progress. Ajemoglu D., Johnson S.

Every day we hear that thanks to the unprecedented achievements of science and technology, we rush to a new, better world at all pairs. Here is a new phone. But the electric car of the last model. A little more - and scientists will find a way to cure cancer, solve the problem of global warming and, perhaps, even eradicate poverty!

Innovation has become an end in itself, new technologies must be introduced to everyone, always, everywhere. And the more, the better!

this has happened more than once. But universal prosperity and prosperity did not come. On the contrary, too many inventions brought humanity only troubles and deprivation.

So what is progress? Is it always justified? Who brings the main dividends? And most importantly, how is it combined with the authorities?

to these and many other questions in his book “Power and Progress”, the creator of the bestseller “Why are some rich countries and the other poor” Daron Ademoglu in collaboration with Simon Johnson.