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Does technological innovation increase unemployment?
24th November 2014
This is an important issue made even more relevant today with the rapid emergence of robotic technologies, the roll out of driverless cars, robotic trucks and much else besides. Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz has a new paper out on the topic - http://www.nber.org/papers/w20670
Here are some other relevant articles:
BBC: Robotic trucks do the jobs that lorry drivers shun
Daily Mail: New report warns 50 per cent of occupations will be redundant in 11 years time
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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