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Martin Ford
Personal blog · econfuture.wordpress.comeconomicsai
Martin Ford's personal blog at econfuture.wordpress.com covers economics and ai. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Technology Attacks for 70 Years: Manufacturing Employment Negative Growth”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Martin Ford's blog for posts on automation, structural unemployment, and whether consumer demand can keep up with corporate profits. Commenters mostly cite it as further reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Futurist and New York Times Bestselling Author focused on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Future Economy
Most-linked posts?
- Technology Attacks for 70 Years: Manufacturing Employment Negative Growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-18
What Hacker News says?
I second this, great book. Here's the author's blog: http://econfuture.wordpress.com/
Comment linking /
on “9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft.”Submitted Technology Attacks for 70 Years: Manufacturing Employment Negative Growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://econfuture.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/flat-or-declining... "When consumers in the U.S. finally fall off the edge of the cliff, where will demand come from? The reflexive answer is always “from consumers China and other emerging economies.” There are a few problems with that: (1) workers in China and other low wage countries don’t make very much and, therefore, have less to spend. (2) Those low wage workers have…
Comment linking /2010/07/27/flat-or-declining-revenues-soaring-profits-is-it-sustainable/
on “The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs”Some further reading for the curious [1][2]. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the structural unemployment issue is indeed due to rapidly advancing automation technologies. Note that the current 58% labour force participation rate is startlingly low when compared to the past two decades. 1. http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/china-robotsautom... 2. http://raceagainstthemachine.com/2012/01/05/the-rebo…
Comment linking /2012/08/20/china-robotsautomation-and-unemployment/
on “Unemployment Rate Down Due To Participation Rate Decline”