14 AI, Economic Growth, and Inequality

Lecture

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Reading

Acemoglu, D., & Restrepo, P. (2022). Tasks, automation, and the rise in U.S. wage inequality. Econometrica, 90(5), 1973–2016.

Acemoglu, D., & Johnson, S. (2023). Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. PublicAffairs. Read Ch. 8: “Digital Damage” and Ch. 9: “Artificial Struggle.”

Autor, D. H. (2015). Why are there still so many jobs? The history and future of workplace automation. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3), 3–30.

Brynjolfsson, E., Li, D., & Raymond, L. R. (2023). Generative AI at Work (NBER Working Paper No. 31161). National Bureau of Economic Research.