“Just look at the Irish numbers. They are eye popping since 1960.”
Simon Johnson is the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and is currently Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. He has just co-authored a book with US economist Daron Acemoglu, entitled 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity', proposing ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for societal benefit as well as private profit. In this podcast with Stephen Kinsella, he talks about the thesis of the book, the nature of the global political economy, and the outlook for Ireland.
