Daniel Susskind
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This program is read by the author.
From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.
From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face hard tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges"--