More Polemic Than Progress

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the term, it does seem generally so. We prefer to think of ourselves as moving forward rather than backward, improving over time, and the word embodies this […] Read Full Article »