We are living in an age of incredible technological innovation. But is it actually benefitting humanity?

MIT Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have a tremendous new book on this exact question: “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity”.

Professor Daron Acemoglu joins me today.

In this podcast, we explore:

• Why social scientists should pay attention to ‘vision’

• Did automation cause premature deindustrialisation?

• Is firm size important?

• Why did wages rise so rapidly in South Korea?

• What’s caused the fall in worker power?

• Why has automation increased?

• How can technology be redirected?