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#71 - The Politics of Automation - w/ Daron Acemoglu

Political Economy Forum

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Is It a Natural Process?

The trajectory and impact of the kinds of technological changes that we do see are in some way politically contingent. We have made a lot of specific decisions for developing technologies, tis adopting them or using them,. which is very important for their inequality conclusions. So there's something technology just happens to be skilled byus. Why is it skilledy? Is it because it's make in the workers with great stem skills, or mba or psh ds much more productive? Or is it because itis actually replacing some workers and reducing opportunities for them? And to what extent we could have done them differently? I think those are the central questions. Both for economics and political economy, an politics

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