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11 April 2017 // Tim Harford
Fans of Blade Runner – and I am one of them – have to admit that the film has a few moments that, to modern eyes, …
21 November 2017
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: …
Emily Schimelpfenig // 3 July 2017
Whether for personal or professional usage, the European Digital Single Market will revolutionise the economy of the European Union, but only if its citizens …
Caroline Burleigh // 16 May 2017
During his recent electoral campaign, the defeated socialist French presidential candidate, Benoît Hamon, repeatedly hinted at a potentially radical proposal: To impose a tax …
22 February 2017
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 …
Ryan Khurana // 14 February 2017
Part 2, for see part 1 here. The great 20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter noted that it is not our technological capabilities that …
Ryan Khurana // 13 February 2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI), the pipe dream of cognitive scientists and engineers in the 1950s, has until recently been the domain of science fiction, though …
Giovanni Caccavello // 6 January 2017
In 1821, at the height of the First Industrial Revolution, David Ricardo, one of the most influential classical economists of the late 1700s and …
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