2 books by Ryan Avent
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Overview: Ryan Avent joined The Economist in 2009 as online economics editor. In 2011 he became economics correspondent, covering global economic issues for the newspaper and writing the Free Exchange economics blog. In 2015 he was named The Economist‘s news editor. Ryan is the author of “The Gated City” and “The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century”.
Genre: Non Fiction > Business
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
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 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 required rewriting the social contract: this one is unlikely to demand anything less. 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 a wrenching rethinking of what an economy should be.
The Gated City
Something has gone wrong with the American economy. Over the past 30 years, great technological leaps failed to translate into faster growth, more jobs, or rising incomes. The link between innovation and broad prosperity seems to have broken down.
At the heart of the problem is a great migration. Families are fleeing the country’s richest cities in droves, leaving places like San Francisco and Boston for the great expanse of the Sunbelt, where homes are cheap, but wages are low.
In The Gated City, Ryan Avent, The Economist’s economics correspondent, diagnoses a critical misfiring in the American economic machine. America’s most innovative cities have become playgrounds for the rich, repelling a cost-conscious middle class and helping to concentrate American wealth in the hands of a few. Until these cities can provide a high quality of life to average households, American economic stagnation will continue.
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