{"product_id":"9781466887190","title":"The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eNone of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital  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 \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Humans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003eeditor  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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePast 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Humans \u003c\/i\u003eexplains, we can't expect to restructure the world without a wrenching rethinking of what an economy should be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124879540464,"sku":"9781466887190","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466887190_p0.jpg?v=1769892088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466887190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}