PRINCETON – A specter is haunting the world economy – the specter of job-killing technology. How this challenge is met will determine the fate of the world’s market economies and democratic polities, in much the same way that Europe’s response to the rise of the socialist movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the course of subsequent history.
普林斯顿—一个幽灵，岗位节约型技术的幽灵，正在世界经济头上飘荡。如何应对这一挑战将决定世界市场经济和民主政治的命运，一如十九世纪末、二十世纪初欧洲应对社会主义运动的方式决定了随后的历史进程。