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Owing to today’s technological advances, the share of total income accruing to labor (as opposed to capital) is declining worldwide.
No one is certain about how many workers are at risk; but, based on the pace of recent technological advances, there is reason for concern.
Many governments are debating how to prevent or slow further advances in North Korea’s capacity and what should be done if such efforts fail.
These advances are the result of audacious institutional reforms and the government's sustained and increased investment in social programs.
Funders compete to identify and support the research that will produce the most significant advances in terms of social impact, security, or commercial profitability.
Support for parallel research in the same areas reduces the efficiency of each investment, and such herding behavior by donors may even preclude some of the most significant advances, which often come as a result of combining the results of seemingly unrelated research.
But, when firms’ efforts to create shareholder value lead to such far-reaching consequences – or “externalities,” in economists’ parlance – for the rest of society, the argument that self-interest advances social welfare falls apart.
This is in line with the so-called Solow computer paradox: productivity gains lag behind technological advances – a notable phenomenon during the digital revolution.
Probably the best way to make Europe credible is to stake out a position that is genuinely bold, one that both advances its interests and upholds its deeper values.
As each advances its domestic energy strategy, identifying synergies can help in rationalizing and making optimum use of what energy resources are available.
ISIS’s advances in Libya are only the latest example.
The sad irony is that recent scientific advances in biology and information technology actually make possible the development and use of innovative tools to face these killer diseases.
But, based on case studies in five economic sectors, the MGI report finds that achieving it, though “extremely challenging,” is possible – and without relying on unforeseeable technological advances.
Finally, economic policies must promote technological advances and global technical cooperation in promising sectors.
There can be too much production of some commodities - say, pollution generating steel - and too little production of others - like research that advances knowledge.
Today, having faded as a result of advances that opened up the Americas and the East to European trade, the Mediterranean has a great opportunity to recover its lost prestige.
It has also strengthened property rights relating to land, labor, capital, and knowledge; this, together with advances in digital and robot technology, has brought down Chinese transaction costs.
In a recent book, the economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee describe these recent advances as examples of the beginning of what they call “the second machine age.”
And, indeed, if the predictions are to be believed, these technological advances could have profound implications for the way we live.
Advances in molecular sciences, corresponding to the sequencing of the human genome in the 1980’s, led to the identification of all the human proteins – large, complex molecules necessary for many of the body’s functions.
The advances in materials science open the possibility of much more energy-efficient residences and commercial buildings.
In the developing world, sustained wealth creation and public-health advances have increased average life expectancy by 20 years since the mid-1970s, and adult illiteracy has been nearly halved in the last 30 years.
Saudi Arabia has already suffered from the farcical failure of its blockade on Qatar, not to mention its two disastrous attempts to stem Iranian advances in Syria and Yemen.
Thus, given the pervasiveness of mobile telephony and recent technological advances in mobile networks, rolling out mobile broadband seems a cost-effective solution.
This act of solidarity – unprecedented in human experience – led to revolutionary advances in promoting health care as a human right.
And what about Trump, of whom at least a dozen women have complained of unwanted sexual advances (if not worse)?
Collectively, the US response to Sputnik propelled advances in aeronautical science, microelectronics, integrated circuits, and communications.
While President Bush argues that technological advances in hydrogen fuels and fuel cells will curb oil imports in the long run, such measures require major changes in transportation infrastructure that will require decades to complete.
Recent technological advances have displaced labor, increasing capital’s share in income and, thus, the level of inequality.
Past economic development, together with advances in economic thinking, have provided us with a wealth of insight into what works and what doesn’t.
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