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Sep 2023
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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 powerful few?

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