Simon Johnson: Our Thousand-Year Struggle ove...

​​In this episode of Economics and Beyond, Rob Johnson and John Fullerton discuss his new book, Regenerative Economics which explores flaws in tra ...

Simon Johnson is an MIT economist and the co-author of a new book called “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity”. Simon’s problem is this: How do you create the conditions for technological change to benefit many people, rather than just a ...  Show more

Reach Out and Read has been working on a remarkable new strategy around a key element of what we do: books!  A strong approach is key to supporting our mission and as a sustainable part of how we work.  Angela Cunningham, Reach Out and Read's National Director of Books Strategy a ...  Show more

Economist and author Daron Acemoglu of MIT discusses his book Power and Progress with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Acemoglu argues that the productivity and prosperity that results from innovation is not always shared widely across the population. He makes the case for t ...

We don't have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technologist Divya Siddarth. She shares how a group of people helped retrain one of the world's most powerful AI models on a constitution they wrote — and offers a vision of technology t ...