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Andrew McAfee
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Andrew McAfee's personal blog at andrewmcafee.org covers economics and business. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Great De-coupling of the US Economy (Dr. McAfee, MIT)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrew McAfee's articles and talks on automation, jobs and the economy. One commenter calls his articles and talks on this topic interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andrew McAfee is an MIT scientist, New York Times best-selling author, public speaker, and entrepreneur studying how technological progress changes the business world, and the world.
Most-linked posts?
- The Great De-coupling of the US Economy (Dr. McAfee, MIT)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Andrew McAfee has a number of interesting articles and talks on this. E.g. http://andrewmcafee.org/2014/06/mcafee-autor-edsall-jobs-ski... The way I see it, automated jobs will still add real value to the economy. Perhaps everyone can receive a share of that surplus through some form of universal income. At that point, assuming most of society's economic value creation is automated, monetary compensation could be co…
Comment linking /2014/06/mcafee-autor-edsall-jobs-skills-downward-ramp/
on “My Half Workday as a Turker”Submitted Will cashiers continue to exist? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI don't think the decoupling argument has been made as conclusively as everyone seems to be assuming. Look at the source in the OP for this [1]: These are some seriously misleading graphs. First, plotting both labor productivity and GDP doesn't make much sense, as the former is almost exactly determined by the latter. They're just measuring GDP. Secondly, they zoom in on the post-WWII era, then proceed to ignore the…
Comment linking /2012/12/the-great-decoupling-of-the-us-economy/
on “The Jobs Are Never Coming Back”Submitted Eric Schmidt: Running a Rocket Ship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of the Myth of Technological Unemployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great De-coupling of the US Economy (Dr. McAfee, MIT) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technological Unemployment: Not Just for the US as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Normal Companies Provide Good Jobs? Yes. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Knowledge Workers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dr. Watson, Please Report to the Health Care System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Company Good at IT? (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Regulators Attack: Cambridge and Uber as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Decoupling of the US Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google+ and the Unsettled World of Social Media as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iTunes tells others what content you've bought as a story · 1 points
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