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In conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Chris Pissarides on how new technologies will affect our jobs and the labour market

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Economics

Funding The Great War and the Beginning of the End for British Hegemony (with Martin Ellison and Tom Sargent)

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ESRC Grant for Longevity Research – ESRC have awarded Andrew Scott a £1million grant to investigate an “Economic Longevity Dividend”

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“Government Debt : The long and the short of it” accepted for publication in Review of Economics Studies

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    In conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Chris Pissarides on how new technologies will affect our jobs and the labour market

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    Funding The Great War and the Beginning of the End for British Hegemony (with Martin Ellison and Tom Sargent)

  •

    ESRC Grant for Longevity Research – ESRC have awarded Andrew Scott a £1million grant to investigate an “Economic Longevity Dividend”

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    “Government Debt : The long and the short of it” accepted for publication in Review of Economics Studies

Recommended Book

Carl Benedikt Frey - The Technology Trap

Frey provides a comprehensive analysis of the history of technology and its impact on employment and wages. Technology may provide long run benefits but also comes with major social costs. Whether society benefits depends on whether technology augments or replaces human labour. Buckle up for a rough ride if AI continues to be more about replacement

Recommended Article

"The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand" by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

Acemoglu and Restrepo emphasise technology isn’t destiny and how it shapes our economy can be influenced by incentives and regulation. Focusing on AI that leads to automation is a dangerous path to a technology trap.

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Also has implications for policies around Covid-19. Very different demographic structures of today will have a major influence on how this virus spreads and affects us twitter.com/sinclairda/sta…

About 2 weeks ago from Andrew J Scott's Twitter via Twitter Web App

My piece in @imf F&D on ageing society vs #longevity economy.If you read age pyramids horizontally all you see is more old people&ageing society. Read them vertically&you see longer life course &greater longevity. Can latter offset economic cost of former? imf.org/external/pubs/… pic.twitter.com/JcjIV1oiyJ

Last month from Andrew J Scott's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Latest issue of IMF F&D on macroeconomics and demography. Theme is very much demography ISNT destiny. @DavidEBloom concludes "Demographics are not, however, set in stone. Nor are their implications for individual and collective well-being" twitter.com/IMFNews/status…

Last month from Andrew J Scott's Twitter via Twitter Web App

The macroeconomic consequences of Corona virus by @JohnHCochrane johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/20… First and foremost its a public health issue, 2nd a financial stability one and "monetary policy is about 10th order and the level of overnight rates about 100th order".

Last month from Andrew J Scott's Twitter via Twitter Web App

I am hiring a post doc to work on my ESRC grant on economics of longevity. If you are interested in macro&demographics, have good data&computational skills & like London take a look here aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… and #econtwitter please pass on to anyone who might be interested

About a month ago from Andrew J Scott's Twitter via Twitter Web App

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