Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator (The MIT Press)

by Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

Lawrence H. Summers (Foreword)

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How to get more innovation and more equality.

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...

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  • ISBN10 026204322X
  • ISBN13 9780262043229
  • Publish Date 29 October 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 7 December 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press