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Paul Krugman - Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & UBI
Tue, Jan 21, 2020 · Loading views
Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.
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Timestamps
- 3:44 - Utopia from an economics perspective
- 4:51 - Competition
- 6:33 - Well-informed citizen
- 7:52 - Disagreements in economics
- 9:57 - Metrics of outcomes
- 13:00 - Safety nets
- 15:54 - Invisible hand of the market
- 21:43 - Regulation of tech sector
- 22:48 - Automation
- 25:51 - Metric of productivity
- 30:35 - Interaction of the economy and politics
- 33:48 - Universal basic income
- 36:40 - Divisiveness of political discourse
- 42:53 - Economic theories
- 52:25 - Starting a system on Mars from scratch
- 55:11 - International trade
- 59:08 - Writing in a time of radicalization and Twitter mobs