Innovation + equality : how to create a future that is more Star Trek than Terminator
Gans, Joshua, 1968-2019
Book
Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades-in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials-have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the top 0.1 percent of households equals that of the bottom ninety percent. Is this the inevitable cost of an innovation-driven economy? Economist Joshua Gans and policy maker Andrew Leigh make the case that pursuing innovation does not mean giving up on equality-precisely the opposite. In this book, they outline ways that society can become both more entrepreneurial and more egalitarian.
Main title:
Innovation + equality : how to create a future that is more Star Trek than Terminator / Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh ; foreword by Lawrence H. Summers.
Author:
Gans, Joshua, 1968-, authorLeigh, Andrew, 1972-, author
Imprint:
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2019]©2019
Collation:
ix, 174 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The price of progress -- Renaissance or dark age? -- Superpowers or annihilation? -- Does innovation require inequality? -- Does innovation cause inequality? -- Encouraging innovation -- Providing insurance -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
9780262043229 (hardback)
Dewey class:
338.0640973
Language:
English
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BRN:
360468