What we get wrong about technology

Fans of Blade Runner – and I am one of them – have to admit that the film has a few moments that, to modern eyes, …

Artificial intelligence and the EU labour market

Widespread automation is often named as the greatest long-term threat to human employment. But Europe’s immediate job market problems are of a different sort: …

Are EU citizens ready for the forthcoming digital revolution?

Whether for personal or professional usage, the European Digital Single Market will revolutionise the economy of the European Union, but only if its citizens …

The Robot Tax: a levy on innovation, growth and job opportunities

During his recent electoral campaign, the defeated socialist French presidential candidate, Benoît Hamon, repeatedly hinted at a potentially radical proposal: To impose a tax …

The Economics of Industry 4.0

Viewed over the sweep of history, concerns about technological unemployment have always proved overblown. Over the last two-hundred years, technology has created more jobs …

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET

Part 2, for see part 1 here.
 
The great 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted that it is not our technological capabilities that …

Artificial Intelligence, automation and the labour market

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the pipe dream of cognitive scientists and engineers in the 1950s, has until recently been the domain of science fiction, though …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Labour

In 1821, at the height of the First Industrial Revolution, David Ricardo, one of the most influential classical economists of the late 1700s and …