Will AI bring a “jobpocalypse”? Maybe not.
James Bessen’s paper “Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment,” was discussed in the Financial Times.
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Babysitting The AI Slop
Christian Catalini draws lessons about adapting to AI from Bessen’s work on the industrial revolution
Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now.
Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal argues that although there is a lot of fear about AI currently destroying jobs, the evidence is not there. Supposedly vulnerable software employment is at a record high.
TPRI Researchers Ranked in the Top 2% of Most Highly Cited Worldwide
Two TPRI scholars, Kevin Outterson and James Bessen, were ranked in the top 2 percent of most highly cited social science researchers in 2024 for citations received over their careers. The annual listing is compiled by John Ionnidis at Stanford.
TPRI Authors win Atkinson Prize for Research on Economic Inequality
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng have been honored with the Atkinson Prize, an award given every two years by the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) to authors of high-quality articles published in the Journal of Economic Inequality for their paper “Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans.” The article examines the effects […]
Research: The Risks of Founding a Startup Near Big Companies
Jim Bessen, Felix Poege and Ronja Röttger’s article “Research: The Risks of Founding a Startup Near Big Companies”, Harvard Business Review, November 12, 2024.