PDF Online Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Full PDF

<b> <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> <b> meets </b> <i>The Second Machine Age </i> <b>in this stunning and optimistic tour de force on the promise and peril of the digital economy, from one of the most brilliant social critics of our time.</b> <br /> <br /> </b>Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of endless prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids, making it harder for people and businesses to keep up. Social networks surrender their original missions to more immediately profitable data mining, while brokerage houses abandon value investing for algorithms that drain markets and our 401ks alike--all tactics driven by the need to stoke growth by any means necessary. Instead of taking this opportunity to reprogram our economy for sustainability, we have doubled down on growth as its core command. We have reached the limits of this approach. We must escape the growth trap, once and for all. <br /><br />Media sc