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S6 Ep20: Power and progress

VoxTalks Economics

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Daron Asim Moglu on how big tech is increasing inequality and undermining democracy. He argues that this cult of techno optimism is concentrating power in the hands of an unaccountable, super wealthy elite. Last week he was in London to talk about his new book Power and Progress. It argues that we need to reshape the path of innovation if we want to harness it for shared prosperity.

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