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 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 a...

How a society’s capacity for belief forms the foundation of its successDo you struggle to find reasons to feel optimistic about the future? Are you trying to understand the creeping institutional dysfunction we see the world over? In this book, Ryan Avent explores how an unswerving confidence in systems of liberal democracy and free market capitalism—which he terms the “Modern Faith”—has left many Western countries struggling to deal with democratic backsliding and...

Niemand van ons heeft de industriële revolutie meegemaakt, maar een dergelijke grote omwenteling staat ons in het huidige digitale tijdperk te wachten. We zullen te maken krijgen met een onstuitbare automatisering en robotisering, met een overvloed aan goedkope arbeid en een groeiende kloof tussen laag- en hooggekwalificeerden. Het is wel duidelijk dat werk een fundamenteel andere rol in ons leven zal gaan spelen. Welk werk blijft er over in het digitale tijdperk? Wie heeft de macht om de ...

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 ...