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“Carl’s work is about what the impact of this new wave of technology and automation is going to be on everybody’s jobs and standards of living. He does that by taking a historical perspective and looking at the Industrial Revolution. The fact is that for quite a long period there wasn’t any increase in average standards of living and indeed, as we know from literature, there was a period of great misery for lots of people as they moved from the countryside to work in the mills and so on. The question he’s asking is, ‘Is it going to be the same this time? Is history going to repeat itself?’ and ‘Are there things we can try and think about in terms of policy that will stop history repeating itself?’” Read more...
The Best Economics Books of 2019
Diane Coyle, Economist
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
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The Passions and the Interests
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
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River of Smoke
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
by E. Glen Weyl & Eric A. Posner
