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The robots are coming, the robots are coming, but is it for my current job?

we underestimate this at our peril! Creativity and viewing it as a way to release untapped potential is one of the key ways forwards

Jim Rose's avatarUtopia, you are standing in it!

via Job Automation Threatens Workforce – Bloomberg.

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“The market cannot be usefully understood as separate from society” : Social Economics, Social Economists and the Real World – by Wilfred Dolfsma

One of the limited presentations of the breadth that is still required in economics

Edward Elgar Publishing's avatarElgarBlog

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Social Economics understands the economy as value-laden – laden with values not just of a ‘bourgeois’ kind, such as prudence and thrift. The values of prudence and thrift are values that are consistent with a view of the market as an means for actors of all stripes to maximize whatever it is that they want to maximize. But, Dr Wilfred Dolfsma explains, social economics acknowledges that there are more values than these that imbue the economy with meaning.

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