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Carl Benedikt Frey

Publications

Move Fast and Regulate Later: The Paradox of China’s Economic Dynamism

The Wall Street Journal

Will AI Yield Abundance Without Purpose?

Project Syndicate

Will AGI Really Be the “Last Invention”?

Project Syndicate

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How America Outcompeted Japan

Foreign Affairs Magazine

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle

Financial Times

Lost in translation: AI’s impact on translators and foreign language skills

VoxEU

The US should beware of regulation as retribution

Financial Times

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Privacy regulation and firm performance: Estimating the GDPR effect globally

Economic Inquiry

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Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne on how AI benefits lower-skilled workers

The Economist

How to escape innovation’s Great Stagnation

Financial Times

Op-ed

Inventing the jobs of the future

Prospect Magazine

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How Culture Gives the US an Innovation Edge Over China

MIT Sloan Management Review

A New World of Remote Work

Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions

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Covid-19 and the future of democracy

VoxEU

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Book Chapter

Attitudes to Technology

Palgrave Macmillan

Article

Automation and its Enemies

VoxEU

Op-ed

The Robot Revolution Is Here

CNN Business Perspectives

Op-ed

Will AI Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates Over the Next Decade?

Wall Street Journal

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Drivers of Distruption? Estimating the Uber Effec

European Economic Review

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Journal

The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Article

Do Labor-saving Technologies Spell the Death of Jobs in the Developing World?

Brookings

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Structural Transformation in the OECD: Digitalisation, Deindustrialisation and the Future of Work

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

Article

How to Prevent the End of Economic Growth

Scientific American

Op-ed

Creative Destruction at Work

Project Syndicate

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‘Can a machine do this job?’ is the wrong question

Financial Times

AI Productivity Growth Won’t Match the Computer Revolution

Project Syndicate

Don't Fear the AI Bubble Bursting

The New York Times

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How the Battle for Control could crush AI's Promise

IMF Finance and Development Magazine

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Want to destroy American business? Protect it, writes Carl Benedikt Frey

The Economist

Virtual Migration Could Revive Growth

Project Syndicate

Weighing Up AI’s Climate Costs

Project Syndicate

Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas

Nature

Disease and Democracy: Political Regimes and Countries Responsiveness to COVID-19

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Disrupting science: How remote collaboration impacts innovation

VoxEU

Culture and Contagion: Individualism and Compliance with COVID-19 Policy

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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How Behemoth Companies Quash Innovation

MIT Technology Review

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China Won't Win the Race for AI Dominance

Foreign Affairs

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Democracy, Culture and Contagion: Political Regimes and Countries Responsiveness to Covid-19

CEPR Covid Economics

Journal

Patents and Corporate Credit Risk

Industrial and Corporate Change

Blog

Robots and Economic Development: Is “Catch-up” Growth a Thing of the Past?

CGD Policy Blog

Op-ed

Künstliche Intelligenz: In der Technologiefalle

Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Uber Happy? Work and Wellbeing in the “Gig Economy”

Economic Policy

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Robots and the Return of the “Machinery Question”

UNIDO

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Growth Hinges on Technology But the Fruits Must be Shared

Financial Times

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Did the Computer Revolution Shift the Fortunes of U.S. Cities? Technology Shocks and the Geography of New Jobs

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Op-ed

The Great Escape: How Workforce Automation is the Answer to Japan’s Secular Stagnation

Nikkei

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Doing Capitalism in the Digital Age

Financial Times

Book

Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation: Public Policy and the Efficiency of Capital Markets

Edward Elgar

This Is Why You’re Drowning in Busywork

The New York Times

Death of distance? Remote collaboration and scientific breakthroughs

Industrial and Corporate Change

The AI Bubble's Shaky Maths

Project Syndicate

The 1970s Gave Us Industrial Decline. A.I. Could Bring Something Worse.

The New York Times

Trump Is Destroying America’s Technological Lead

Project Syndicate

Redirecting AI: Privacy regulation and the future of artificial intelligence

VoxEU

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Generative AI and the Future of Work: A Reappraisal

The Brown Journal of World Affairs

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Expert Comment: Jobs will be automated, but not because of the latest Generative AI

Oxford University Blog

Automation or Globalization? The Impacts of Robots and Chinese Imports on Jobs in the United Kingdom

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

The GDPR effect: How data privacy regulation shaped firm performance globally

VoxEU

We don’t need to go back to the office to be creative, we need AI

WIRED

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Article

The Great Innovation Deceleration

MIT Sloan Management Review

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Op-ed

Democracies have proven they have the edge in coping with this crisis

Financial Times

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Op-ed

Covid-19 will only increase automation anxiety

Financial Times

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Article

Learning From Automation Anxiety of the Past

MIT Sloan Management Review

Op-ed

The High Cost of Impeding Automation

Wall Street Journal

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Op-ed

Politikerna Måste Hantera Robotiseringens Avigsidor

Dagens Nyheter

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Political Machinery: Did Robots Swing the 2016 US Presidential Election?

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

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Industrial Renewal in the 21st Century: Evidence from US Cities

Regional Studies

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Regional Technological Dynamism and Noncompete Clauses: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Regional Science

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Technology at Work: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the Global Workforce

VoxEU

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Cheap Automation Raises Risk of ‘Premature Deindustrialisation’

Financial Times

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How 21st-Century Cities Can Avoid the Fate of 20th-Century Detroit

Scientific American

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