Technology, Society, and Conflict

Elena G. Popkova · Manas Chatterji

Sep 2022 · Emerald Group Publishing

About this ebook

Technology, Society, and Conflict comprehensively studies and systematically highlights technological inequalities as a source of conflict in digital development while developing an economic and legal approach to resolving them. With a progressive approach, chapters reveal the social nature of technological inequality and digital development conflicts and model them as social institutions. The conflicts of digital development are identified and analysed in detail: global conflict of the technological inequality in the modern world economy; gender conflict; conflict in the labour market in the context of automation based on Robots, Big Data, and AI; and conflict in international trade. The manifestations of the digital divide are considered based on international practical experience at all levels of management – country, regional, business and household levels.

This 30th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics, and Development gives special attention to the latest experience in technological inequality and the aggravation of digital development conflicts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis in 2019-2020 with foresight for the post-pandemic period.

About the author

Elena G. Popkova, PhD, is Professor of Economics and Leading Researcher for the Centre for Applied Research and Chair of “Economic policy and public-private partnership” of Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MGIMO University, Russia.

Manas Chatterji is Professor of Management and Adjunct Professor in Economics at the Asian and Asian-American Studies Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York, Manas is also Guest Professor at Peking University, China, Visiting Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, China, and Distinguished Professor in Poznan University, Poland.