Wendy Wong’s ‘We, the Data’ among finalists for Lionel Gelber Prize
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This article was published 08/02/2024 (785 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
TORONTO – Works that examine technology and the economy are among the finalists for a Canadian 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 Canadian 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 Canadian diplomat and is presented annually by the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 8, 2024.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version erroneously referred to the 2023 prize.