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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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There has been a growing debate in the West, recently, about whether we are witnessing the phenomenon of technological unemployment caused by increasing automation in all spheres of economic activity, a form of unemployment that is distinct from cyclical unemployment, or structural unemployment causing by trade and globalisation, or even that existing in the form of a reserve army.
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There has been a growing debate in the West, recently, about whether we are witnessing the phenomenon of technological unemployment caused by increasing automation in all spheres of economic activity, a form of unemployment that is distinct from cyclical unemployment, or structural unemployment caused by trade and globalisation, or even that existing in the form of a reserve army.

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Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent”

TL;DR: The central role of both the supply and demand for skills in shaping inequality is documented, why skill demands have persistently risen in industrialized countries is discussed, and the economic value of inequality is considered alongside its potential social costs.
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The Psychology of Working Theory.

TL;DR: The central aim is to explain the work experiences of all individuals, but particularly people near or in poverty, people who face discrimination and marginalization in their lives, and people facing challenging work-based transitions for which contextual factors are often the primary drivers of the ability to secure decent work.
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Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality

TL;DR: This article showed that economic complexity is a significant and negative predictor of income inequality and that this relationship is robust to controlling for aggregate measures of income, institutions, export concentration, and human capital.
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How the World Changed Social Media

TL;DR: The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce as mentioned in this paper.
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The Relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach

TL;DR: The current state of research on the relationship between education and health in the United States is reviewed and the conceptualization of education beyond attainment is extended and the centrality of the schooling process to health is demonstrated.
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About Capital in the Twenty-First Century

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present three key facts about income and wealth inequality in the long run emerging from my book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and seek to sharpen and refocus the discussion about those trends.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

TL;DR: Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as mentioned in this paper is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.
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Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the U.S. faces six headwinds that are in the process of dragging long-term growth to half or less of the 1.9 percent annual rate experienced between 1860 and 2007, including demography, education, inequality, globalization, energy/environment and the overhang of consumer and government debt.