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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

The need to reskill and enable individuals to learn marketable new skills during their lifetime will be a critical challenge – and for poorer nations, a sweeping challenge. More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Apple is an enormously powerful firm, and its actions can set the agenda for an entire industry. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. The same is true of Facebook. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. Insight Center.