Wealth of Humans - Softcover

Avent, Ryan

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9780141981185: Wealth of Humans

Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

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About the Author

Ryan Avent is Economics Correspondent for The Economist and his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian. Previously, he worked as an economic consultant and as an industry analyst for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the principal fact finding agency for the US Government in the broad field of labour economics and statistics. This is his first book. He lives in London.

Review

Avent is a fluent writer who takes complex ideas and works them, like Plasticine, into vivid models ... The Wealth of Humans stands favourable comparison with Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty -- Martin Vander Weyer * Telegraph * Ryan Avent is a superb writer ... highly readable and lively -- Thomas Picketty Compelling and troubling... In popular commentary on the future, there is an unhelpful view that one day each of us will turn up at work and find a robot sitting in our chairs. Avent's alternative account, of a slow but persistent decline in the importance of work and a fractious search for a new political settlement, is immeasurably more plausible -- Daniel Susskind * Sunday Times * In the world of economics, Ryan Avent is simply one of the sharpest and most intelligent writers around. Nobody is better placed to tell us how technology is shaping our economy and our lives -- Tim Harford An important argument on a subject that will shape the coming decades -- Duncan Weldon * Prospect *

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Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781250075802: The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN 10:  1250075807 ISBN 13:  9781250075802
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2016
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