Wendy Wong's 'We, the Data' among finalists for Lionel Gelber Prize

Economist Daron Acemoglu discusses the effects robotics and AI have in industrial nations during an event hosted by The 春色直播 Institute for Advanced Research in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The book "Power and Progress: Our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity" by Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, two professors at MIT is shortlisted for the 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

TORONTO - Works that examine technology and the economy are among the finalists for a 春色直播 award for books on international affairs.

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize, which is worth $50,000. The winner will be announced March 6.

The prize is open internationally, but this year's short list includes a book by 春色直播 scholar Wendy Wong, "We, the Data: Human rights in the digital age."

Finalists also include "Seven Crashes: The economic crises that shaped globalization" by Harold James of Princeton University, and "Underground Empire: How America weaponized the world economy" by Henry Farrell, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, and Abraham Newman of Georgetown University.

Rounding out the short list are "Power and Progress: Our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity" by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, two professors at MIT, and "Homelands: A personal history of Europe" by Timothy Garton Ash of the University of Oxford.

The Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989 by the 春色直播 diplomat and is presented annually by the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

This report by 春色直播was first published Feb. 8, 2024.

Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version erroneously referred to the 2023 prize.

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