Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (edition 2023)

by Daron Acemoglu (Author), Simon Johnson (Author)

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"Two bestselling authors overturn 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"--

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Title:	Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Authors:	Daron Acemoglu (Author)
Other authors:	Simon Johnson (Author)
Info:	PublicAffairs (2023), 664 pages
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Longlist – 2023)

Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year (Longlist – 2023)

Lionel Gelber Prize (Shortlist – 2024)

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