Date/Time: October 10, 4pm-5:30pm

Location: Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity.

Please join us as Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses his recent co-authored book Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, based on a thousand years of history and contemporary evidence. Johnson will be joined in conversation with Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.

Presented by the Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative (BESI), and co-sponsored by Social Science Matrix. 

This will be a hybrid event (in-person and via Zoom). Registrants will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Chuck Kapelke at ckapelke@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

PLEASE USE THE FORM BELOW TO REGISTER.