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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Betsey Stevenson - Finding Success Just to Keep Working Hard
Americans work fewer hours over a lifetime than they used to, but nearly all of the drop comes before and after our careers. University of Michigan professor…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Sarah Bana - When Applying Costs Nothing
AI has made applying for jobs almost free, which weakens one of the few signals employers had about who wants the role. LSE professor Sarah Bana explains how…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Zeke Hernandez - Knowledge Travels in People
mmigration debates usually start and end with jobs and wages. Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez argues that labor is only one of five channels, alongside…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Erik Brynjolfsson - Escaping the Turing Trap
Most AI benchmarks ask how well a machine can do a task humans already do. Erik Brynjolfsson argues that this framing, inherited from the Turing test, pulls…
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[[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW]] Karin Kimbrough - When Employment Data Meets Social Media
The official labor market data tells you how many people have jobs. LinkedIn’s data tells you how urgently they’re looking for new ones, how they’re moving…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Bill Beach - What's Broken About the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Official labor statistics are the backbone of economic policymaking, and they were mostly designed in the 1950s. The man who ran BLS through the pandemic has a…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Sarah O'Connor - We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work
The AI and work debate has been dominated by economists with exposure scores and tech CEOs with predictions. What's been missing is the ground-level view of…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Ernie Tedeschi - What the Productivity Numbers Say About AI
Productivity growth in the US has jumped by about a percentage point since 2023. That's a big deal. Whether AI is the cause, or just the context, is a much…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Andrey Fradkin - What Happens to Markets When AI Agents Do the Negotiating
If AI agents can represent us in negotiations, handle our hiring, shop on our behalf, and coordinate across firms without friction, a lot of what economists…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Natalia Emanuel - What We Lose When We Stop Working in the Same Room
When two people have a conversation in person, their brains synchronize. Over Zoom, they lose 90% of that neural synchrony. That's the starting point for…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Seth Benzell - What Economists Get Wrong About AI (And What They Get Right)
There are three distinct communities doing economics of AI research, and they don't always agree. Seth Benzell sits at the intersection of all of them and has…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Paul Osterman - The Disposable Worker: How Firms Learned to Stop Investing in People
The postwar employment contract, characterized by stable jobs, career ladders, wages that rose with productivity, didn't dissolve overnight. Firms chipped away…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Charles Gottlieb - What Global Labor Market Data Can Tell Us About Development, Gender, and Growth
The biggest questions in development economics keep running into the same wall: we don't have good enough data on how people actually work across most of the…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Rick Hanushek - What Schools Get Wrong
The secret to better schools isn't always more money, smaller classes, or better curriculum. It's often better teachers. The problem is the American education…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Anna Stansbury - Worker Power, Wages, and What's Gone Wrong in the American Labor Market
The labor share of income has dropped from roughly two thirds to below sixty percent since the early 1980s. The US looks like an outlier even among rich…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Luis Garicano - Why the Most Valuable Work Is the Hardest to Automate
The jobs most protected from AI aren't necessarily the most credentialed ones. They're the ones where tasks are so tightly bundled together that pulling one…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Mike Spence - What a Nobel Laureate Thinks AI Does to Education
The theory of labor market signaling changed how economists think about education, hiring, and information. Fifty years later, AI is rewriting the conditions…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Ronnie Chatterji - How the Labor Market Looks from Inside Open AI
What does it look like to do economics from inside the AI revolution with access to data nobody else has, and questions nobody has figured out how to answer…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Roberto Rigobon - Why We're Getting Worse at Measuring
The economy is changing faster than our ability to track it. And the data sources we rely on most, like surveys, official statistics, and government indices…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Ioana Marinescu - Why Workers Are Underpaid, and What We Could Do About It
Most people earn less than they're worth. Not because they're not productive, but because the labor market isn't nearly as competitive as it could be. In this…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Bill Easterly - What We Get Wrong About Foreign Aid
The story of foreign aid is usually told as a story of insufficient resources. Bill Easterly thinks that misses the point. In this episode, Ben sits down with…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Deena Mousa - What AI Means for the Developing World
The standard debate about AI and jobs is a rich-country debate. But for billions of people in low- and middle-income countries, the stakes and the story look…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Leah Boustan - What Immigration Tells Us About Economic Opportunity
The debate about immigration is usually framed around politics and labor markets. But the deeper story includes mobility. Who gets ahead, how, and why where…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Jasmine Sun - The Youth's Love/Hate Relationship with AI
The backlash against AI among young people appears codependent as they rely on it for more and more, while also being some of its most vocal opponents. In this…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Rachel Lipson - Bridging Business, Education, and Policy to Build a Better Workforce
What does it take to connect the worlds of academia, government, and industry around workforce development? The answer requires someone fluent in all three. In…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Daniel Rock - What Automation Means for How We Organize Jobs
What actually happens to a job when AI touches it? The answer depends on something most frameworks aren't designed to measure. In this episode, Ben sits down…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Isabella Loaiza - Beyond Exposure
The dominant framework for measuring AI's impact on jobs may be asking the wrong question entirely. In this episode, Ben sits down with Isabella Loaiza…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] John Boudreau - Are Business Leaders Listening to HR Theory?
Finance has net present value. Operations has bottleneck theory. What does HR have? In this episode, Ben sits down with John Boudreau, professor emeritus at…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Alexis Fink - The Science of Making Work Not Suck
Most conversations about the future of work focus on technology. This one focuses on people. In this episode, Ben sits down with Alexis Fink, organizational…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Nick Bloom - The New Geography of Work
Five years after the pandemic reshaped where and how we work, where have we actually landed? In this episode, Ben sits down with Nick Bloom, professor of…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Al Roth - Moral Economics and Repugnant Transactions
What makes a transaction repugnant? And why does society allow some controversial markets to flourish while banning others that seem far less harmful? In this…
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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] DAVID AUTOR - Are new technologies really new?
In this episode, Ben sits down with David Autor, professor of economics at MIT, to explore how technology transforms work at every level from individual tasks…