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Kaushik Basu: Is an AI-pocalypse inevitable? Not if we curb Big Tech’s concentrations of wealth | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with a mixture of hope and anxiety: hope because of the rise in living standards that the digital revolution has made possible, and anxiety because it has deepened social divisions and destabilized politics around the world. But anxiety has recently taken an existential turn, as the industry
Gated recessions: multitudes could suffer while the rich grow richer and macro indicators mask hard times | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Something strange is happening in the US labour market. The latest data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the US economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, yet its unemployment rate actually fell to 4.1%. A closer look helps explain the apparent contradiction. To be counted as unemployed in the US, a person must be actively looking for a job. Today, however, the job market is so bleak that people are givi
Kaushik Basu: Why political gutfeel on economic policy is no substitute for rigorous analysis | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. During the seven years I served as chief economic advisor to the Government of India and as chief economist at the World Bank, I came to appreciate what a strange discipline economics is. Parts of it amount to little more than organized common sense, which is why political leaders with no formal training can sometimes make policy decisions every bit as sound as those of professional experts. Yet, other parts are as
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