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Though economists have examined labor displacement due to digitization, few have considered the new work and value created. Studies of platforms invariably focus on specific organizational forms such as sharing or gigs. They build taxonomies based on the platform's organization – few consider...
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epistemic base of technology. Historically, a recurrent pattern can be identified: humans learned to successively transfer labor …
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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We consider a setting where strategic behavior of r&d firms can lead to different types of a technology lock …-in, permanent or temporary, in an eventually inferior technology. The simple setting with one incumbent and one potential entrant … socially suboptimal, since it may lead to faster development of the existing technology due to persistent threat of the …
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