Tag: employment

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be ...

Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, ...

I’ve been concerned about the impact of automation on human employment for a while. My research activity started after November 2016, when I decided I needed to learn whether the much-touted phrase, ...