The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

By Xiaojing Dong, S. Mcintyre. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Economics & Operations Research

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When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts (2017, background): “[4] Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.”
Gone with the Headwinds: Global Productivity (2017, background): “Including the measurement error in the software deflator implied by Byrne and Corrado (2016), adjustment for measurement errors in ICT equipment and software prices adds 24 basis points to average annual labor productivity growth in the United States over 2004– 14, compared to 38 basis points in the”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “The coming revolution in work (e.g. Frey & Osborne, 2013; Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014) is due to what are likely to be spectacular extensions of automation along with associated changes in the structure of the economy.”
Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory (2019, background): “Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2014) and Brynjolfsson, Rock, and Syverson (2017) disagree, arguing that the diffusion of new technologies such as artificial intelligence will boost productivity growth going forward, whereas Nordhaus (2015) expects the opposite.12 While understanding the long-term future…”
Low‐carbon transition risks for finance (2020, background): “Early applications of IT technology revolutionised long-distance communication and photography and movie production and delivery, with progress still ongoing (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014).”
Automation, Algorithms, and Beyond: Why Work Design Matters More Than Ever in a Digital World (2020, background): “…of the question as to what marks the current developments as ‘different’ to previously, most authors point to the combination of big data and AI which enables machines to substitute humans in cognitive and higher-skill domains (Autor & Dorn, 2013; Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014; Frey & Osborne, 2017).”
Are Low Real Interest Rates Here to Stay (2017, background): “Others, such as Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2014), see the recent slowdown as a blip—growing pains as a result of disruptive new digital technologies that will soon give way to rapid productivity gains. Some, such as Kurzweil (2005) even argue we are about to enter a phase of unprecedented growth, fuel”
Consequences of Industry 4.0 on Human Labour and Work Organisation (2015, background): “…systems and to compensate for job losses arising from ever advancing computer and software technologies, such as better education, more focus on entrepreneurship and startups, more support for academic research or the introduction of Pigovian and negative income taxes (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014).”
The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation (2016, background): “The example of computer chess is often trotted out to illustrate the point (Cowen 2013; Brynjolfsson & McAfee 2014; Thompson 2013).”
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes (2020, background): “(16) illustrate how a given outcome evolves over time within robot adopters relative to non-adopters (the control group), over a ten-year window around the first instance of robot imports (t = 0).”
Reflections on societal and business model transformation arising from digitization and big data analytics: A research agenda (2015, background): “…of accelerating digitization and advanced big data analytics, harnessing quality data for designing and delivering state-of-the-art services will enable innovative business models and management approaches (Boyd and Crawford, 2012; Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014) and yield an array of consequences.”
Expanding the Impact of the Psychology of Working: Engaging Psychology in the Struggle for Decent Work and Human Rights (2019, background): “…technology (Benzell et al., 2015; Frey & Osbourne, 2013). computers that can think analytically, as evidenced by the emergence of robots and other devices that are changing the nature of people’s relationships with the world (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014; Frey & Osbourne, 2013; Redden et al., 2014).”
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0): A Social Innovation Perspective (2017, background): “Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2014) emphasized that, in order to take advantage of the opportunity that the new industrial revolution presents, it is important to recognize its impact on the whole society.”