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"Power & Progress": Professor Daron Acemoglu

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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The Rise of Automation

In the 1970s and 80s, Western labor costs rose. East Asia became much more competitive. Milton Friedman's vision of what managers should do was channeled into automation. The tech industry at the time also provided the tools for automation.

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