These people are excellent at their jobs I was compelled by a recent piece on the history of Russia’s attitudes towards Ukraine to post an enthusiastic, if disappointingly thinly answered, paean to the journalists of the Economist on my Facebook page. To be able to combine history, journali...
Trish Regan,“The world’s only stand-up economist talks jobs”,Bloomberg TV, Apr 5 2013. Sebastián Campanario,“Resulta que un economista entra a un bar y le dice a otro…”,La Nacion(Argentina), Feb 17 2013. Devin Leigh,“Yoram Bauman, Stand-up Economist”,City Arts, Oct 30 2012...
Since teaching obligations and part-time work consumed his days and nights, Henry found it near-impossible to immerse himself in his own work. But, as he discovered when applying for jobs, institutions place the most value on research – even for fixed-term positions with no research element....
This post is part of a series in the Marshall 2020 Project, i.e., an excuse for me to read Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics (1890 first edition/1920 eighth edition), which dominated economic thinking until Van Neumann and Morgenstern’s Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour (1944...
Why do they even accept the one-day-in-ten jobs?”“Because they are done together. . . . And other reasons. You know, life on Anarres isn’t rich, as it is here. In the little communities there isn’t very much entertainment, and there is a lot of work to be done. So, if ...
China is a developing country. And China also has some companies. They are doing their driverless taxis business. But many people in China, they will be worried about that. The drivers will lose their jobs to AI. So generally speaking, what do you think of the impact of AI on employment...
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But the rise has been very uneven..., any further rise in the retirement age would be a harsh blow to Americans in the bottom half of the income distribution, who aren’t living much longer, and who, in many cases, have jobs requiring physical effort that’s difficult even for healthy...
China is a developing country. And China also has some companies. They are doing their driverless taxis business. But many people in China, they will be worried about that. The drivers will lose their jobs to AI. So generally speaking, what do you think of the impact of AI on employment...
Personally, I wince every time I hear state or local policymakers taking a stance on what’s happening at the federal level, because to me, it suggest that they are not focused on their actual jobs. When the streets are safe and in good repair, the K-12 schools are educating students ...