Expert opinions on Economics

Launch Baby Bonds at the federal level. Every child born after January 1, 2026, receives a capital endowment at birth. Start at two thousand dollars.

It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they ...

We share the Government’s belief that workers should be at the centre of Australia’s AI transformation – and that AI itself should be a net-creator of jobs.

AI is rapidly transforming America's economy and workforce faster than we can track. The AI Workforce Impact Study Act of 2026 takes the critical first step of measuring precisely how AI is impacting everyday Americans. That information will be criti...

The vast majority of those we laid off last week were measurers.

If artificial general intelligence (AGI) and quantum computing mature, they could break today’s cryptography and concentrate informational and economic power even more in a small club of states and firms.

The default path is that we all become unemployable, except in mandated make-work contexts, and then marginalized in favour of a machine economy oriented towards growth for the sake of competitiveness.

This is more than a learning curve. It’s a structural challenge for individuals, employers and entire industries — one that risks widening inequalities if left unaddressed.

When finished, this hub will house gigawatt-scale compute and a new international subsea cable gateway, bringing jobs and the benefits of cutting-edge AI to people and businesses across India.

Tax policy can be an important tool to generate tax revenue and address growing inequality in the age of AI. Economists have studied how tax policy can actively shape labor markets. Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Manera, and Pascual Restrepo found the U.S. t...

Raising the cost of all those innovation- and productivity-enhancing uses of computing would unequivocally harm American productivity, innovation, and global competitiveness. Knowingly imposing these costs on ourselves because of concerns about certa...

This creates what we call the “Abundance Flywheel”: commit compute to a hard problem, focus R&D until it clears, watch the domain collapse from artisanal craft to industrial utility, capture the surplus, and reinvest it into the next target. Repeat u...

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

It is often suggested that the advent of powerful AI will create abundance and that it can thereby contribute to securing social harmony. This paper draws on Hirsch’s study of different kinds of limits to growth to show that this is false.

This article proposes a rights-based governance architecture that binds AI deployment to worker voice, enforceable human rights due diligence, and universal social-protection floors.

Therefore, having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals.

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

The new AI prophets of doom suffer from a failure of imagination. They simply cannot envision what work the future will bring, so they conclude it will bring none. In the real world, Washington would stack a UBI atop existing programs, adding trillio...