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D. Acemoglu and S. Johnson, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (London: Basic Books, 2023). Pages vii + 546 + images 34. £20.00 hardcover.

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D. Acemoglu and S. Johnson, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (London: Basic Books, 2023). Pages vii + 546 + images 34. £20.00 hardcover.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2023

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Bruno Caprettini*
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University of St Gallen
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Continuity and Change , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , December 2023 , pp. 347 - 349
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1 Hobsbawm, Eric J., ‘The machine breakers’, Past & Present 1 (1952), 57–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Caprettini, Bruno and Voth, Hans-Joachim, ‘Rage against the machines: labor-saving technology and unrest in industrializing England’, American Economic Review: Insights 2, 3 (2020), 305–20Google Scholar.

3 Rosenberg, Nathan, ‘The direction of technological change: inducement mechanisms and focusing devices’, Economic Development and Cultural Change 18, 1, Part 1 (1969), 1–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar.