Race against the machine : how the digital revolution is accelerating innovation, driving productivity, and irreversibly transforming employment and the economy

By Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew P. McAfee. 2011

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Subfields: Economics & Operations Research, Social Sciences & Humanities

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When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts (2017, background): “Several sources provide objective evidence about future AI advances: trends in computing hardware [7], task performance [8], and the automation of labor [9].”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “Nonetheless, the trend is clear: computers increasingly challenge human labour in a wide range of cognitive tasks (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2011).”
Technological change and employment: is Europe ready for the challenge? (2018, positive): “In this context, Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2011, 2014) suggest that the current employment problems are only partially caused by the economic crisis.”
Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement (2017, background): “2Aeppel (2015), Alloway (2015), Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2011), Byrne, Oliner, and Sichel (2015), Feldstein (2015), Hatzius and Dawsey (2015), Mokyr (2014), and Smith (2015) have explored the role of measurement in accounting for the dynamics of productivity.”
GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy (2019, neutral): “Our 4 Among others, see, for example, Gordon (2016) and Cowen (2011) giving a pessimistic view and Sichel (2016), Mokyr, Vickers and Ziebarth (2015) and Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2011, 2014) giving a more optimistic view.”
Digital Business Model, Digital Transformation, Digital Entrepreneurship: Is There A Sustainable “Digital”? (2020, background): “These digital innovations are often characterized by radical change and their disruptive nature, thereby overcoming barriers to enter previously closed markets [7,42].”
Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries (2020, positive): “A number of researchers have noted that the polarization process was accelerated by the Great Recession (see Autor, 2010, and Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011).”
Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms (STARA): Employees’ perceptions of our future workplace (2017, background): “The effect of STARA in the service sector will be like a new industrial revolution and will take decades to play out (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011).”
The digital platform: a research agenda (2018, background): “It also raises the issue of possible wider consequences for paid work (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2011; Sørensen and Pillans, 2012), and for our understanding of how competition may be reshaped, for example, in winner-takes-all digital markets (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014; Pon, 2016).”
Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future (2019, background): “This is particularly relevant in a world in which technology is rapidly changing individual values, the nature of organizations, and the market landscape (e.g., see Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2011).”
Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? (2020, background): “labor productivity in service sectors as well (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2012).”
Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement (2015, neutral): “Factor prices satisfy w t = qtDS [γ(HS,t) εs−1 εs + (1− γ)(Gt) εs−1 εs ] 1 εs−1 [γ(HS,t) − 1 εs ], (7) w t = qtDS [γ(HS,t) εs−1 εs + (1− γ)(Gt) εs−1 εs ] 1 εs−1 [(1− γ)(Gt) 1 εs ], (8) rt = DY [α(Kt) εy−1 εy + (1− α)(At) εy−1 εy ] 1 εy−1 [α(Kt) − 1 εy ], (9) and mt = DY [α(Kt) εy−1 εy + (1− α)(At) ε”