Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the Global Economics and Management group, delivered a live presentation on technology and inequality in ...

MIT Economics professor Daron Acemoglu delivered the fourth annual Stone Lecture at a JFK Jr. Forum Tuesday evening, discussing the impacts of AI and technological advancement on wealth concentration.

Not only are women more financially responsible than their male counterparts, but they are also increasingly losing out at work at a time when technology is developing at a rate of knots. As the World ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is sounding the alarm that generative artificial intelligence could impact a significant share of jobs worldwide, and warned the technology's disruption of the ...

1. Technology triggers an explosion of growth and inequality During the Han dynasty, new iron-working techniques led to better plows and irrigation tools. Harvests boomed, enabling the Chinese empire ...

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One factor that helped entrench wealth inequality five millennia ago was the advent of the ox-drawn plow, finds a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Literature. Credit: Richard Nicolaüs Roland ...

When controlled by a select few, tech innovation can be self-serving and undermine the institutions that make it possible, says Simon Johnson Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and ’90s proved an ...