We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. In the United States, Europe, and other advanced economies, productivity growth has slowed so drastically in the past decade that economists debate whether we have entered a new era of stagnation
The feasibility of measuring the sharing economy: November 2017 progress update - Offic... - 0 views
The False Choice Between Automation and Jobs - 2 views
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Now comes potential help, in the form of advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, which can already outperform humans
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not just (or even mainly) in terms of reducing labor costs: automation can also bring whole new business models, and improvements that go beyond human capabilities, such as increasing throughput and quality and raising the speed of responses in a variety of industries. Automation will give the global economy that much-needed productivity boost, even as it enables us to tackle societal “moonshots” such as curing disease or contributing solutions to the climate change challenge
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"The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. No less significant than the jobs that will be displaced are the jobs that will change-and those that will be created. New research by the McKinsey Global institute suggests that roughly 15% of the global workforce could be displaced by 2030 in a midpoint scenario, but that the jobs likely created will make up for those lost. There is an important proviso: that economies sustain high economic growth and dynamism, coupled with strong trends that will drive demand for work. Even so, between 75 million to 375 million people globally may need to switch occupational categories by 2030, depending on how quickly automation is adopted."
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed - 1 views
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Article sur la blockchain et les systèmes de mesure de la valeur dans l'économie de partage. Dans le cas de Backfeed, ici exemainé par les chercheurs, un nouveau système de valeur est envisagé, qui repose sur : (a) la production de valeur ; (b) la mesure de cette valeur ; (c) l'actualisation de la valeur.
Danish sharing economy strategy just a first step - Nordic Labour Journal - 0 views
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