David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox
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The Supply Response to the Rising Return to Education in the United States
The US has a very weak STEM education in secondary at the high school level and even in the middle school level. And so that makes it much, much harder for people to enter those activities. I think one reason, and part of it is just taste, people just don't really like doing those things. But my point simply being that the foundational skills in math and analytical training, need to come pretty early.
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