In this passage from Human Use of Human Beings (1950), Norbert Wiener sketches what many contemporary thinkers in growth and labor economics have argued: in the long-run (and we have seen this pattern before), a re-organization of task allocations to machines or people (capital or human labor) driven by increasing automation might eventually lead to a re-organization of the economic system, new…
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