Thursday, September 5, 2013

Tyler Cowen Is Becoming the Go To Guy on Questions of Automation/Labor/Capital (plus he has a new book)

I had not been to Marginal Revolution in a couple days and having just visited am gobsmacked.
Some of the output:
Who Will Prosper in the New World?
The global decline of the labor share 
It’s the success stories that worry me 
My TechCrunch interview about *Average is Over*:
....“Marketing”, Cowen writes in Average Is Over, is the “seminal sector for our future economy.” But Cowen’s intriguing definition of marketing lies in figuring out how to motivate people and to get them to feel better about themselves. Everyone in the future economy – from doctors to educators to entrepreneurs – will be coaches. But who is going to own the operating platform in the age of the smart machine? That’s the trillion-dollar question which even Tyler Cowen isn’t smart enough to answer. 
Herbert Simon on stagnation and automation

More, on blogroll at left.