Modern world Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules…

— Robert Reich

“The three topics of this book - technological change, education, and inequality - are intricately related in a kind of 'race.' During the first…

— Claudia Goldin

“Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any…

— Benazir Bhutto

“Contrary to what techno-determinists want us to believe, inequality is not the inevitable by-product of technology and globalization or even the lopsided distribution of…

— Jonathan Taplin

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is…

— Guy Standing

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

— Tyler Cowen

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

— Rem Koolhaas

There's a presupposition that income inequality has been brought by tech. It's not created by an industry, or a company.

— Francis X. Suarez

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt