In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export...

We provide a partial equilibrium model wherein AI provides abilities combined with human skills to provide an aggregate intermediate service good. We use the model to find that the extent of automation through AI will be greater if (a) the economy is relatively abundant in sophisticated programs...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Malthusians and the Cornucopians -- 3. What to Do About the Detritovores? -- 4. Green Growth -- 5. The Degrowth Movement: A Radical Political Project -- 6. Living in a Degrowth World -- 7. Collapse -- 8. Conclusion.

Success in international trade depends, amongst other things, on distance from markets. Most new economic geography models focus on the distance between countries. In contrast much less theorizing and empirical analysis have focused on how distances within a country for instance due to the...