The Wealth of Humans, Ryan Avent
The Wealth of Humans, Ryan Avent
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The Wealth of Humans
Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century

Author: Ryan Avent

Narrator: Scott Merriman

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

An investigation of how the digital revolution is fundamentally changing our concept of work, and what it means for our future economy.None of us has ever lived through an 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 Wealth of Humans, 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?Travelling around the world, Avent investigates the meaning of work today: how technology is rendering time-tested business models outmoded and catapulting workers into a world indistinguishable from that of a generation ago. Our conceptions of the relationships between capital and labor and between rich and poor have been overturned.Past revolutions required rewriting the social contract, as will this one. Avent looks to the history of the Industrial Revolution and the work of numerous experts for lessons in reordering society. The future needn’t be bleak, but as The Wealth of Humans explains, we can’t expect to restructure the world without rethinking what an economy should be.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom LA on February 06, 2017

I know there are many dedicated people who work there, but if there is a magazine I honestly can't stand, it's The Economist. I must have stopped reading it about 8 years ago. Every now and then I get a copy for a check-in: the unbearable lefty smugness, the moral superiority, and the way they offer......more

Goodreads review by David on October 21, 2018

A fine read, recommended by my good friend Graeme; I enjoyed this one on Audible. Ryan Avent, a Senior Editor with The Economist, has presented a well-researched and eye-opening account of the broad and transformative impact of the "Digital Revolution", on the job market, careers, established busine......more

Goodreads review by Tom on January 09, 2017

This is a very good, disturbing book. I agree with Avent's thesis that we are in a new industrial revolution, with them-there chips and software and all. Turns out that makes most of us redundant, though maybe you are very smart & clever and hooked into a winning corporate culture or at least born i......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 15, 2016

I was very excited to read this book but felt quite dissapointed. Ryan tries to be a poor man's Tyler Cowen, but falls short. The Wealth of Humans is about an important subject, but glosses over many important concepts and fails to introduce anything new or interesting. In theory, this book targets......more

Goodreads review by Haaris on March 10, 2017

Based on coffee table wisdom in many places when it considers serious empirical questions and resolves them using unrealistic bare bones models. The best chapter for me was the one on Secular Stagnation which was a succinct description of what that concept essentially means, and implies for the worl......more

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