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 completely different.In this episode, Ben ...
19 Elo 37min
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 thread unravels the whole thing.In this epi...
12 Elo 50min
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 yet?In this episode, Ben sits down with Ron...
5 Elo 44min
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 Bill Easterly, NYU economist and author of...
30 Heinä 35min
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, economist and researcher at MIT, to challenge so...
23 Heinä 41min
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 they start determines so much about where y...
9 Heinä 37min
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 USC and one of the most influential thinkers...
2 Heinä 46min
