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None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In __The Illusion of Stability__, __Economist__ editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every bit as disruptive as those that shook the socioeconomic landscape of the 19th century? Traveling from Shenzhen, to Gothenburg, to Mumbai, to Silicon Valley, Avent investigates the meaning of work in the twenty-first century: how technology is upending time-tested business models and thrusting workers of all kinds into a world wholly unlike that of a generation ago. It's a world in which the relationships between capital and labor and between rich and poor have been overturned. Past revolutions...
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- Author
- Ryan Avent
- Publisher
- St. Martin’s Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250075802
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (200 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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