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What Does AI Mean for Real Wages? Task Displacement, Reinstatement, Baumol, Autor, Capital-Labor Substitution and Distribution
When artificial intelligence automates cognitive work, do real wages rise because workers are more productive, or do real wages fall because human labour is displaced and capital owners capture the rents? We build the economics of AI and real wages from first principles: why Cobb-Douglas fails, Acemoglu and Restrepo's task-based race between displacement and reinstatement, Autor's Polanyi's Paradox, randomized evidence of within-occupation wage compression, Caselli and Manning's reproducible-capital theorem, Baumol's cost disease in housing and healthcare, Engels' Pause during the British…
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