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Martin Ford

Martin Ford is the author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future.

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    To the Jobless Economy

    SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – Nearly all economic forecasts agree that high unemployment in much of the developed world will most likely persist f…

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  • To the Jobless Economy

    jeff miles: Great article. I clearly do NOT understand why more people (especially economists) do not feel like us! In the cartoon world of George Jetson, people only worked 16 hours a week as automation to…

  • To the Jobless Economy

    Jan Smith: If the tipping point is mere speculation, so is the absence of the tipping point. So why do economists treat the latter speculation as established fact, unbeknownst only to naifs and slowpokes? …