In today's episode, Vishwa and Milda speak with Dr. Maarten Goos, an award winning professor, researcher, and labour economist at the University of Utrecht. In this episode, they discuss the roles of AI, decarbonization, and education in labour markets and what that means for our futures.
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Timestamps
1:40 - The Future of Work
6:57 - Job Polarization and AI
12:33 - AI Regulation Options
18:45 - The Thinning Middle Class, Increased Inequality, and the Value of Education
27:08 - How do we deal with a green transition?
34:25 - What’s with this “labour shortage” we’ve been hearing about? Does increasing wages mean higher inflation?
40:11 - How can we improve the way we teach economics?
