The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century

　　沒有任何人經歷過一個真正的工業革命。



　　直到現在。



　　數位科技正在改變經濟的每一個角落，根本地改變事情被處理的方法、參與的人與人們努力後得到的回報。本書中，經濟學人編輯Ryan Avent帶來最及時的研究跟報導見證這個時代主要的經濟問題：現代世界可以能否妥善掌控科技的改變，即使這些改變像19世紀的社會與經濟一樣震盪？



　　當機器人持續增加，單一勞工的生產力也會增加，高知識工作也面對被取代的可能性。當企業不需僱用那麼多勞工，失業人口勢必激增。我們該如何應對？



　　從深圳、哥德堡、孟買到矽谷，作者調查21世紀的新工作面貌：科技如何翻轉固著已久的商業模型，並將各行各業推向與上一代完全不同的世界。這是一個資本與勞工、貧與富之間的既有關係正被推翻的世界。



　　經歷革命後的社會需要重新訂立社會契約，作者借鏡工業革命歷史與重組社會的研究。The Wealth of Humans主張不必看衰未來，但我們應當重新思考經濟應該是什麼，再談如何重組世界。(文/博客來編譯)

None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now.

Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every bit as disruptive as those that shook the socioeconomic landscape of the 19th century?

Traveling from Shenzhen, to Gothenburg, to Mumbai, to Silicon Valley, Avent investigates the meaning of work in the twenty-first century: how technology is upending time-tested business models and thrusting workers of all kinds into a world wholly unlike that of a generation ago. It's a world in which the relationships between capital and labor and between rich and poor have been overturned.

Past revolutions required rewriting the social contract: this one is unlikely to demand anything less. Avent looks to the history of the Industrial Revolution and the work of numerous experts for lessons in reordering society. The future needn't be bleak, but as The Wealth of Humans explains, we can't expect to restructure the world without a wrenching rethinking of what an economy should be.

RYAN AVENT is an economics correspondent for the Economist. He’s also the primary contributor to its Free Exchange blog and a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of a Kindle Single: The Gated City, which analyzes migration from American cities. Avent was previously an economic consultant and an industry analyst for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He lives in London, England. The Wealth of Humans is his first book.