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Rethinking The Impact AI Might Have On Work

The Horizons Tracker

The paper sparked a wave of concern about what impact the latest wave of automated technologies would have on the labor market. They suggest that the current economic feasibility is limited for individual firms but could be enhanced through aggregating demand across firms via larger entities or AI-as-a-service models.

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

The need to reskill and enable individuals to learn marketable new skills during their lifetime will be a critical challenge – and for poorer nations, a sweeping challenge. More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication. The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research.

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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. at the market's close on Monday (3/14), erasing more than $300 billion of equity value, and lost another 10.6% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5%

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. Automation of this sort includes self-driving cars and diagnosing disease. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS. in 2005 to 15.8%

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, we don't actually compete much with China in our export markets; it's mainly with the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. Even if we weren't importing oil, our market would still be linked to the world market.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. To the extent these firms have market power, they’re less subject to quarter-to-quarter competitive pressure. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons.

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