en

Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson is a British American economist. He currently is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.

Audiobooks

Quotes

Željka Tanaskovićhas quoted3 months ago
We are living in an age that is even more blindly optimistic and more elitist about technology than the times of Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke. As we document in , people making the big decisions are once again deaf to the suffering created in the name of progress
Željka Tanaskovićhas quoted3 months ago
In fact, a thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing abundantly clear: there is nothing automatic about new technologies bringing widespread prosperity. Whether they do or not is an economic, social, and political choice.
Željka Tanaskovićhas quoted3 months ago
Optimism regarding shared benefits from technological progress is founded on a simple and powerful idea: the “productivity bandwagon
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)