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A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond  Cover Image Book Book

A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind.

Susskind, Daniel, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781250173515 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2020.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A History of Misplaced Anxiety -- The Age of Labor -- The Pragmatist Revolution -- Underestimating Machines -- Task Encroachment -- Frictional Technological Unemployment -- Structural Technological Unemployment --Technology and Inequality -- Education and Its Limits -- The Big State -- Big Tech -- Meaning and Purpose.
Subject: Automation > Social aspects.
Social change.
Technology > Social aspects.

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Cookstown Branch 331.25 Sus 31681010182624 NONFIC Available -

Daniel Susskind is the coauthor, with Richard Susskind, of The Future of the Professions, named as one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times, New Scientist, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a fellow in economics at Balliol College, Oxford University. Previously, he worked in the British government – as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, as a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office.


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