* = "Marcus recommends"
Redesigning AI (a Boston Review Forum), by Daron Acemoğlu and others, 2021.
Lead essay by Daron Acemoğlu.
Special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 37 (#3), Autumn 2021 (edited by David Bholat and Daniel Susskind).
Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution, edited by Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig, 2020.
* The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2019 (individual chapters open access).
Work in the Digital Age: Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, edited by Max Neufeind, Jacqueline O'Reilly and Florian Ranft, 2018.
Our Work Here Is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy, edited by Stian Westlake, 2014 (open access).
* A world without work, by Daniel Susskind, 2020.
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation, by Carl Benedikt Frey, 2020 (mostly historical).
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, by Tim O'Reilly, 2017.
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Jerry Kaplan, 2016.
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything, by Martin Ford, 2021.
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment, by Martin Ford, 2015.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, 2014.
Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2011.
Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, 2022.
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (updated and expanded edition), by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, 2022 (original edition 2018).
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, by Frank Pasquale, 2020.
Automation and the Future of Work, by Aaron Benanav, 2020.
Video discussion of Benanav's book (one hour duration).
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work, by John Danaher, 2019.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, 2016.
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, by Richard E. Susskind and Daniel Susskind, 2015.
Acemoğlu, Daron, and Restrepo, Pascual (2020). "The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 13, no. 1 : 25-35.
Acemoğlu, Daron, and Restrepo, Pascual (2018). "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment." American Economic Review 108 (6) : 1488-1542.
Acemoğlu, Daron, and Restrepo, Pascual (2017). "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets", Journal of Political Economy 128(6), 2188-2244.
Acemoğlu, Daron and Restrepo, Pascual (2019) "Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor", Journal of Economic Perspectives 33, no. 2 : 3-30.
Agrawal, Ajay, Gans, Joshua S. and Goldfarb, Avi (2019) "Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction", Journal of Economic Perspectives 33(2), 31-50.
Atack, Jeremy, Margo, Robert A. and Rhode Paul W. (2019), "Automation of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study", Journal of Economic Perspectives 33(2), pp.51-70.
Autor, David (2015). "Why are there still so many jobs? The history and future of workplace automation". Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29 (3), 3-30.
Autor, D., Chin, C., Salomons, A. M., and Seegmiller, B. (2022). "New frontiers: The origins and content of new work", 1940–2018. NBER Working Paper, No. 30389.
Autor, David, and Salomons, Anna (2017). "Robocalypse Now: Does Productivity Growth Threaten Employment?" Proceedings of the ECB Forum on Central Banking: Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies (pp. 45-118).
Autor, David, and Salomons, Anna (2018). "Is automation labor-displacing? Productivity growth, employment, and the labor share". Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Benzell, Seth G., Kotlikoff, Laurence J., LaGarda, Guillermo and Sachs, Jeffrey D. (2015). "Robots are us: Some economics of human replacement". (No. w20941.) National Bureau of Economic Research.
Berg, Andrew, Buffie, Edward F. and Zanna, Luis-Felipe (2016). "Robots, growth, and inequality." Finance & Development 53 (3). 10-13.
Cheng, Hong, Ruixue Jia, Dandan Li and Hongbin Li (2019), "The Rise of Robots in China", Journal of Economic Perspectives 33(2), pp.71-88.
Ernst, Ekkehardt, Merola, Rossana and Samaan Daniel (2019). "Economics of artificial intelligence: Implications for the future of work." IZA Journal of Labor Policy 9, no. 1.
Felten, Edward, Raj, Manav and Seamans, Robert Channing (2019) "The effect of Artificial Intelligence on human labor: An ability-based approach." In Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, no. 1, p. 15784. Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2019.
Frey, Carl Benedikt and Osborne, Michael A. (2017) "The future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" Technological forecasting and social change 114 (2017): 254-280.
Gasteiger, E. and Prettner, K. (2022). "Automation, Stagnation, and the Implications of a Robot Tax". Macroeconomic Dynamics, 26(1):218–249.
Gersbach, Hans, Komarov, E., and von Maydell, R. (2022). "Artificial Intelligence as Self-Learning Capital". CEPR Discussion Paper, No. 17221.
Graetz, Georg, and Guy Michaels (2017). "Is modern technology responsible for jobless recoveries?" American Economic Review 107 (5), 168-73.
Graetz, Georg, and Guy Michaels (2018). "Robots at Work". Review of Economics and Statistics 100(5), pp.753-768.
Gries, Thomas and Naudé, Wim (2022). "Modelling artificial intelligence in economics." Journal for Labour Market Research 56, no. 1 : 12.
Hémous, D. and Olsen, M. (2022). "The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation and Income Inequality". American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 14(1), 179-223.
Korinek, Anton (2019) "The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Agents" (working paper, Apr. 2019).
Korinek, Anton and Juelfs, Megan (2022) "Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work", forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of AI Governance.
Korinek, Anton and Klinova, Katya (2021) "AI and Shared Prosperity", Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’21), pp. 645-651, July 2021.
Korinek, Anton and Stiglitz, Joseph (2021) "Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development" (working paper, Jan 2021).
Korinek, Anton and Stiglitz, Joseph (2021) "Technological Progress, Artificial Intelligence, and Inclusive Growth", in Valerie Cerra et al. (eds.), How to Achieve Inclusive Growth, IMF and Oxford University Press, 2021.
Korinek, Anton and Stiglitz, Joseph (2019) "Artificial Intelligence, Worker-Replacing Technological Progress, and Income Distribution" (working paper, Jan. 2019).
Korinek, Anton and Trammell, Phil (2020) "Economic Growth under Transformative AI" (working paper, Sept. 2020).
Lu, Chia-Hui (2020). "Artificial Intelligence and Human Jobs". Macroeconomic Dynamics 25(5):1–40.
Lu, Yingying, and Zhou, Yixiao (2021). "A review on the economics of artificial intelligence." Journal of Economic Surveys 35, no. 4 : 1045-1072.
Prettner, K. and Strulik, H. (2020). "Innovation, Automation, and Inequality: Policy Challenges in the Race Against the Machine". Journal of Monetary Economics 116:249–265.
Sachs, J. D., & Kotlikoff, L. J. (2012). "Smart machines and long-term misery" (No. w18629). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Susskind, Daniel (2022) "Technological Unemployment", from The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, edited by Justin Bullock, Yu-Che Chen, Johannes Himmelreich, Valerie Hudson, Anton Korinek, Matthew Young, and Baobao Zhang (2022-)
Tschang, Feichin Ted and Almirall , Esteve (2021). "Artificial intelligence as augmenting automation: Implications for employment." Academy of Management Perspectives 35, no. 4 : 642-659.
Virgilio, Gianluca PM (2021). "Is artificial intelligence leading to a jobless future?" Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 46, no. 3-4: 244-267.
Economics of AI website (conferences, literature, and other resources)
The Rhodes Center Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav "The Robots May Be Coming, But Probably Not for Your Job"
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