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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

Lawmakers in nations with inflexible labor markets can learn from other countries that have deregulated, like Germany, which revitalized its federal unemployment agency into a powerful job-matching entity. 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.

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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. The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. Otherwise the potential created by technical progress runs to waste in idle capacity, unemployment, and deprivation.

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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. To the extent these firms have market power, they’re less subject to quarter-to-quarter competitive pressure. It’s no coincidence that the firms I mentioned above are Apple, Facebook, and BlackRock.

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