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The human advantage : the future of American work in an age of smart machines / Jay W. Richards.
Lippincott Library HD8072.5 .R52 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Jay W. (Jay Wesley), 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--United States.
- Labor.
- United States.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Free enterprise.
- Virtue.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Forum, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free enterprise and virtue can save the American Dream in an age of A.I. and mass disruption."--Inside jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Part I: How we got here. From hunter-gatherers to homeowners: the evolution of the American Dream
- Rise of the robots: will smart machines eat all the jobs?
- Part II: Rebuilding a culture of virtue. The human difference: what only we can do
- Fear not: courage in the age of disruption
- Keep growing: antifragility in an age of exponential change
- Do unto others: altruism in a digital age
- No one is an island: collaboration in a hyper-connected age
- Be fruitful: creative freedom in an age of ever more information
- Part III: How to pursue happiness. Blessed be: happiness and how to pursue it
- Fight the good fight: overcoming obstacles to the Third American Dream
- Conclusion: this quintessence of dust.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical notes (pages [211]-252) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780451496164
- 0451496167
- OCLC:
- 1033592023
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