Big Tech’s Harvest of Sorrow?
Aug 7, 2019 sees disturbing parallels between Silicon Valley’s rationalist utopianism and that of past central planners.
Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT, is co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (forthcoming from Penguin Press in September 2019).
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Big Tech’s Harvest of Sorrow? 
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