Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator

by Andrew Leigh and Joshua Gans

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026204322X
• ISBN13: 9780262043229
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"