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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 more skeptics, the smaller the total available market for those products.

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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

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Wage growth has not kept up with productivity growth; labor’s share of GDP has fallen and capital’s share has risen.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. That will make a contribution marginally, in my view. But a lot of them will be in services.

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