Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the Global Economics and Management group, delivered a live presentation on technology and inequality in ...

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Two millennia later, the role of technology in increasing inequality around the world remains a major political and societal issue. AI-driven "technology panic" —exacerbated by the disruptive efforts ...

There is a Big Lie pushed by centrist types that is almost as pernicious as the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It is that inequality was driven by technology, an autonomous force in ...

MIT Economics professor Daron Acemoglu delivered the fourth annual Stone Lecture at a JFK Jr. Forum Tuesday evening, discussing the impacts of AI and technological advancement on wealth concentration.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is sounding the alarm that generative artificial intelligence could impact a significant share of jobs worldwide, and warned the technology's disruption of the ...

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One factor that helped entrench wealth inequality five millennia ago was the advent of the ox-drawn plow, finds a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Literature. Credit: Richard Nicolaüs Roland ...