14. 01. 2013
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The Starting Gun of the (Modern) Race Against the Machine

MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee were on 60 Minutes yesterday discussing their book Race Against the Machine, which describes how computers (in particular, robots & digitally enabled technologies) are increasingly displacing...

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13. 01. 2013
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Techno-pessimists: Wrong in the 1930s, Wrong Today

This week’s issue of The Economist contains an article assessing recent claims by Tyler Cowen, Robert Gordon, Peter Thiel and others that we have entered an age of diminished innovation and declining economic prosperity. Here’s axcerpt...

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04. 05. 2012
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Don’t Just Create a Product. Create a Movement.

I’ve got a post up as of today on the Harvard Business Review blog. Here’s how it starts: As the editor of the journal Innovations, I’m asked with some regularity, “So, what is innovation anyhow?...

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04. 05. 2012
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The Coming Prosperity in 3 minutes

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14. 04. 2012
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Kids Today

OK, this video is already viral. But I Tweeted it a couple of days ago and I want in on the fun. If you haven’t seen Caine’s Arcade, do yourself a favor and...

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07. 04. 2012
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The Coming Prosperity—Reviews and Media

Reviews “How the World Gets Ahead,” Matthew Rees, The Wall Street Journal The Coming Prosperity is filled with vivid profiles of men and women who have succeeded under harsh conditions…But The Coming Prosperity...

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06. 04. 2012
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Kauffman Foundation Interview

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02. 04. 2012
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Reconciling The Coming Prosperity with the Great Stagnation: Excerpt from my Interview with Richard Florida

Richard Florida and I have been friends, and at times colleagues, since the late 1990s. He was insightful and articulate back then, as he is now. Back when Richard first started working on...

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12. 12. 2011
The One-Sector Economy

The One-Sector Economy

Here’s a talk I gave a couple of months ago on Capitol Hill at an event organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center to discuss the Startup America Act: Sums up in 10 minutes my...

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15. 10. 2011
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I come to bury industrial policy, not to praise it (pt II—Rodrik)

[continuing from previous post "I come to bury industrial policy, not to praise it (pt I)"] … Now on to Dani Rodrik’s contribution to the 2010 The Economist debate concerning industrial policy. Rodrik’s...

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15. 10. 2011
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I come to bury industrial policy, not to praise it (pt I—Lerner)

A recent  renewal of public discussion regarding the virtues of industrial policy, juxtaposed against the ongoing Solyndra spectacle, prompted me the other day to revisit an Economist debate from last year between Josh Lerner and...

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14. 10. 2011
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You Get What You Celebrate

Carl Schramm has a post on Forbes.com titled “Remembering Steve Jobs By Celebrating The Life He Lived“: Here’s what President Obama said in January 2009 to the million people on the National Mall...

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