01265nam a2200193   450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200160007610000240009224500720011626000520018830000170024050000510025752000880030852006120039665000120100865000300102065000210105020251122170238.0251122b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691287287  a338.064 FRE  aFrey, Carl Benedikt  aHow progress ends:btechnology, innovation, and the fate of nations  aPrinceton:bPrinceton University Press;cc2025.  axiii, 529p.   aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.
  aIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world’s largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.  aHistory  aTechnological innovations  aEconomic aspects