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Automation and Work: Understanding Local Impacts

March 11, 2016 By Mark Justman 2 Comments

Innovation in automation technologies is giving rise to growing concerns that advanced robotics and cognitive computing could generate significant “technological unemployment” in developed economies. According to the seminal research of Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in their paper "The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?” up to 47% of US workers face… Details

Automation: The Seen and the Unseen

By Mark Justman Business Change Economy Retail Technology Work Leave a comment

Frederic Bastiat, author of The Seen and Unseen, was one the first economists to explore the interaction between policy and and unintended consequences: In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only…

December 10, 2015

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