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 ...

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 ...

Not only are women more financially responsible than their male counterparts, but they are also increasingly losing out at work at a time when technology is developing at a rate of knots. As the World ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus: the US has accused Russia of meddling ahead of the Presidential election This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

BANGKOK — Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world. A new ...

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 ...