Podcasts about economic possibilities

Andreas Folkers über die Konzepte „Nachhaltigkeit“ und „Resilienz“ und die mit ihnen verbundenen gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse.   Shownotes Personal website: https://andreasfolkers.eu/ Distinguished fellow am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/personen/vollmitglieder/fellows/andreas-folkers Mitglied des Kollegiums des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS): https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/persona-detalles/andreas-folkers.html Aktuelles Buchprojekt über die Fossile Moderne: https://andreasfolkers.eu/index.php/elementor-35/#project1 Folkers, A. (2022). Nach der Nachhaltigkeit: Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne. Leviathan, 50(2), 239–262. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0340-0425-2022-2-239.pdf   Folkers, A. (2018). Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz: Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Campus Verlag. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/das_sicherheitsdispositiv_der_resilienz-14888.html?srsltid=AfmBOooGjxw_GU-9I7R61EerQGI1qZijDVeCc_JfoUhlaLkbRDN3YCKz zu „stranded assets“: Folkers, A. (2024). Calculative futures between climate and finance: A tragedy of multiple horizons. The Sociological Review.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241258832 zu Hans Carl von Carlowitz und dem Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit: https://www.bmel.de/DE/themen/wald/wald-in-deutschland/carlowitz-jahr.html Sächsische Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Gesellschaft e. V. (Ed.). (2013). Die Erfindung der Nachhaltigkeit: Leben, Werk und Wirkung des Hans Carl von Carlowitz. oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/die-erfindung-der-nachhaltigkeit-9783865814159 zu „Gouvernementalität“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouvernementalit%C3%A4t Zu „Kameralismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameralismus zum Ausdruck „Zucht und Ordnung“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucht_und_Ordnung Doganova, L. (2024). Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781942130918/discounting-the-future?srsltid=AfmBOorTzdy_ERt2RO3FWcs_uZ5kIPf3oNdJGiBaAm0AXyqmxrdIcmaN Iannerhofer, I. (2016): Neomalthusianismus. In: Kolboske, B. et al. (Hrsg.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. (open access) https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/media/proceedings/9/15/N%20Neomalthusianismus.pdf zu “peak oil”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96lf%C3%B6rdermaximum zur “Population Bomb“ (Buch und Debatte): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb zum „Limits to Growth“ Report des Club of Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth zum Konzept des „Maximum sustainable yield“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_sustainable_yield Sieferle, R. P. (2021). Der unterirdische Wald: Energiekrise und Industrielle Revolution. Manuscriptum Verlag. https://www.manuscriptum.de/der-unterirdische-wald.html zur “Tragedy of the Commons”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons zu “Sustainable Development”: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/what+is+sustainable+development%3F/623493.html zum “Our Common Future“ Bericht (auch “Brundtland-Bericht“ genannt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland-Bericht zur „ökologischen Ökonomie“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologische_%C3%96konomie zu Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen Mahrdt, H. (2022). Arbeiten/Herstellen/Handeln. In: Heuer, W., Rosenmüller, S. (Hrsg.) Arendt-Handbuch. J.B. Metzler. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05837-9_71#citeas zu „Kreislaufwirtschaft“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreislaufwirtschaft zum „Neuen Materialismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuer_Materialismus zum „Metabolischen Riss“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift zu „Erdsystemwissenschaft“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_system_science zu „CCS Technologien (Carbon Capture and Storage)”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2-Abscheidung_und_-Speicherung zu “Climate Tipping Points”: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/infodesk/tipping-elements/tipping-elements Saito, Kohei. 2023. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376 zu „CO2 Budgets”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_budget zur Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das Klimaschutzgesetz 2019: https://www.germanwatch.org/de/verfassungsbeschwerde Luhmann, N. (1994). Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/niklas-luhmann-die-wirtschaft-der-gesellschaft-t-9783518287521 Keynes, J.M. (2010). Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. In: Essays in Persuasion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-59072-8_25#citeas zu “Keynesianismus”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus zu Crawford Stanley Holling und „Resilienz“: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-08-23-pioneering-the-science-of-surprise-.html zur „Gaia-Hypothese“ von Lynn Margulis und James Lovelock: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-Hypothese Ghosh, A. (2021). The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html Buller, A. (2022). The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162632/ Chakrabarty, D. (2022). Das Klima der Geschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter. Suhrkamp Verlag. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/dipesh-chakrabarty-das-klima-der-geschichte-im-planetarischen-zeitalter-t-9783518587799 Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism Malm, A., & Collective, T. Z. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2520-white-skin-black-fuel Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/ S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress, and Left Imaginaries https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/ S03E27 | Andreas Gehrlach zur ursprünglichen Wohlstandsgesellschaft https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e27-andreas-gehrlach-zur-urspruenglichen-wohlstandsgesellschaft/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S03E17 | Klaus Dörre zu Utopie, Nachhaltigkeit und einer Linken für das 21. Jh. https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e17-klaus-doerre-zu-utopie-nachhaltigkeit-und-einer-linken-fuer-das-21-jh/ S03E16 | Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer Ökologie https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e16-daniela-russ-zu-energie-wirtschaft-und-produktivistischer-oekologie/ S03E15 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung (Teil 2) https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e15-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung-teil-2/ S03E14 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e14-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung/ S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/ S03E05 | Marina Fischer-Kowalski zu gesellschaftlichem Stoffwechsel https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e05-marina-fischer-kowalski-zu-gesellschaftlichem-stoffwechsel/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/     Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories   Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit mir auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories   Webseite mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com   Episode Keywords #AndreasFolkers, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Klimakrise, #Ressourcen, #Klimakollaps, #Kapitalismus, #GesellschaftlicheNaturverhältnisse, #Zukunft, #Degrowth, #Knappheit, #Wirtschaft, #Wirtschaftswissenschaft, #Neoklassik, #Ökonomik, #AlternativeWirtschaft, #Nachhaltigkeit, #Resilienz, #PluraleÖkonomik, #HeterodoxeÖkonomik, #Commons, #Freiheit, #Emanzipation, #Planungsdebatte, #PostkapitalistischeProduktionsweise, #DemokratischePlanung, #NeuerMaterialismus, #Material-UndEnergieflussanalyse, #KommodifizierungDerNatur, #Material-Fluss-Analyse, #Stoffwechsel, #SozialerMetabolismus, #SoziometabolischePlanung, #Beziehungsweisen, #EnvironmentalesRegieren, #EnvironmentalGovernance, #Ökologisch-demokratischePlanung, #ÖkologischePlanung, #SozialÖkologischeRegime      

Survivorship Bias, Burnout und die (Nicht)-Notwendigkeit von harter Arbeit; Urlaub ohne Formular und Chris' Grabsteinspruch.  Danke Christian, dein Lob ist unser Thema. Was bedeutet es eigentlich, ein Unternehmen zu führen, das nicht nur erfolgreich, sondern auch lebenswert ist?Chris hinterfragt das oft propagierte Credo, das Erfolg ausschließlich durch harte Arbeit entsteht. Aus persönlicher Erfahrung – darunter ein Burnout mit 23 Jahren – erzählt er, warum er überzeugt ist: „Es geht auch anders.“ Vielleicht sind auch daraus die Überzeugungen und Ursprünge unserer Firma Wahnsinn Design entstanden: ein Ort, wo wir versuchen, großartig zu arbeiten, ohne sich ausbrennen zu müssen. Prognose aus 1930 für 2030 war eine 15h-Arbeitswoche:„Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us.“
Essay ‚Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchilderen‘ (1930),  John Maynard Keynes Als Unternehmer tragen wir die Verantwortung, dass es den Mitarbeitern gut geht. Wie kann z. B. der „Get rid of the shit day“ dabei helfen, ein kreatives und entlastendes Arbeitsumfeld zu fördern? Statt ständig mehr Input lautet die Devise: besser und effektiver arbeiten. Doch was heißt das konkret?Warum ist „mehr Kommunikation“ oft nicht die Lösung. „Bessere“ Kommunikation sollte das Ziel sein. Kontrolle führt nicht zu guten Ergebnissen. Das vorherrschende Denken: Ich brauche keine fähigen Leute, um etwas umzusetzen, wichtig sind nur richtige Anweisungen. Der daraus oft resultierende Dokumentations- und Anforderungsberg ist schlichtweg verlorene Lebenszeit. Wir müssen zwar etwas zu nahe 100 % verstanden haben, um richtig Gutes zu kreieren, aber braucht es dafür wirklich 300 Seiten Anforderungsmaterial? Chris findet, all diese Gedanken verdienen einen größeren Rahmen – vielleicht bald als Vortrag? Bleibt neugierig, bleibt mutig – und lasst uns gemeinsam eine Arbeitswelt gestalten, die produktiv und lebenswert ist. Viel Spaß!
P.S. Liebe Grüße auch an Chris Ma =) In der Folge erwähnt: John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930): http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdfJohn Maynard Keynes: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_KeynesSurvivorship Bias: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_BiasChristians Post auf Linkedinaerzteblatt.de - Krankenhausärzte verbringen täglich drei Stunden mit Bürokratie: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/153414/Krankenhausaerzte-verbringen-taeglich-drei-Stunden-mit-BuerokratieTed Talk, Yves Morieux - How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done: https://www.ted.com/talks/yves_morieux_how_too_many_rules_at_work_keep_you_from_getting_things_done/transcript --------Noch ein Podcast:Perspektiven auf Software & Design von Chris & Alex.www.bessermit.design --------

Levy Institute President Pavlina R. Tcherneva sits down with Lord Robert Skidelsky to discuss his new book, Mindless. Their conversation spans Skidelsky's roots in economics, his studies as biographer of John Maynard Keynes, and a revisit of the "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." Be sure to listen and join the conversation through your favorite podcast listening service. The early application deadline for the Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy is January 15, 2025. For more information and to start your application, please visit: https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/ Further Readings:  Levy Institute Working Paper No. 1073 "Frankenstein in Fact and Fiction" | Lecture at Bard College (View Lecture), November 19, 2024 by Robert Skidelsky Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes, by Robert Skidelsky Keynes: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky What's Wrong with Economics?, by Robert Skidelsky How Much Is Enough?, by Robert Skidelsky

Sixty percent of the jobs that Americans do today didn't exist in 1940. What happens as our labor becomes more technical and less physical? And what kinds of jobs will exist in the future?  SOURCES:David Autor, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Paula Barmaimon, manager of coverage and audience analytics at The New York Times.Ellen Griesedieck, artist and president of the American Mural Project.Adina Lichtman, co-host of the Our Friends Are Smart party.Avi Popack, co-host of the Our Friends Are Smart party.Huck Scarry, author and illustrator.James Suzman, anthropologist and author.Ben Varon, rabbi and chaplain at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn . RESOURCES:"New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018," by David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, and Bryan Seegmiller (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024).Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, by James Suzman (2020).Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, by Studs Terkel (1974).What Do People Do All Day?, by Richard Scarry (1968)."Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," by John Maynard Keynes (1930).American Mural Project. EXTRAS:"Will the Democrats 'Make America Great Again'?" by Freakonomics Radio (2023)."How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse," by Freakonomics Radio (2021)."Did China Eat America's Jobs?" by Freakonomics Radio (2017).People I (Mostly) Admire.

Welcome to the third episode of "Arguable," where we, Utkarsh and Dhruva, dive into the changing nature and value of work as we know it. We kick things off by dusting off John Maynard Keynes' crystal ball from 1930. Remember when he boldly predicted we'd all be living the 15-hour workweek dream by now? Spoiler alert: we're not. But why? We'll unpack this economic plot twist and why we're still chained to our desks instead of sipping piña coladas on the beach. Fast forward to today, and we're staring down the barrel of a Goldman Sachs report that's got everyone's circuits frying. Three hundred million jobs potentially replaced by AI? That's not just a new industrial revolution; it's a whole new economic dimension! The four most dangerous words used by pundits are, ‘This time it's different.' We follow their cue and explore whether this time it really is different. We're not just talking about machines taking over assembly lines. We're talking about AI potentially writing your next novel, diagnosing your illnesses, or even arguing your court cases. Is this the dawn of a utopian future or the prelude to a jobless dystopia? We navigate the choppy waters between techno-optimism and techno-skepticism, exploring why we should be both thrilled and terrified about our silicon-powered future. Will AI be our loyal sidekick, freeing us up for more creative pursuits? Or will it be the ultimate job thief, leaving us all twiddling our thumbs? Voltaire once said, "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need." Would we still work if AI-induced productivity made work unnecessary? There are reasons to believe we would. That's why we go into the Universal Basic Income debate. Tune in and tell us what you think. Mentioned: 1. Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren: John Maynard Keynes 2. The US labor market is automating and becoming more flexible: Goldman Sachs 3. Can This Country Show Europe How to Compete Again?: The New York Times 4. Passion Economy and the Side Hustle Revolution: Utkarsh Amitabh

Jacob and Rob talk briefly about emerging markets and a return to orthodox economic policies in places like Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Egypt. After a brief digression into the Bank of Japan's decision to raise interest rates, they spend the rest of the podcast discussing a study that looked at the impact of direct cash transfers on labor supply and quality – and what it means that the key takeaway was that people want to have fun. --Timestamps:(00:00) - Intro(01:47) - CI Club Concept(05:45) - Global Geopolitical Updates(07:38) - Focus on Nigeria and Ethiopia(13:51) - Economic Strategies and Challenges(17:49) - Japan's Economic Policies(20:50) - Unconditional Cash Transfers Study(29:05) - Challenges in U.S. Immigration and Workforce(29:34) - Anecdotes on Job Market Shifts(31:23) - Decline in Male Labor Force Participation(34:57) - Universal Basic Income Study Findings(40:34) - Philosophical Implications of Leisure(44:29) - Automation and Future of Work(46:47) - Starbucks Earnings and Service Quality(48:06) - Historical Context and Policy Reflections(55:59) - Concluding Thoughts and Reflections--Jacob Shapiro Site: jacobshapiro.comJacob Twitter: x.com/JacobShapCI Site: cognitive.investmentsSubscribe to the Newsletter: bit.ly/weekly-sitrep--Cognitive Investments is an investment advisory firm, founded in 2019 that provides clients with a nuanced array of financial planning, investment advisory and wealth management services. We aim to grow both our clients' material wealth (i.e. their existing financial assets) and their human wealth (i.e. their ability to make good strategic decisions for their business, family, and career).--Disclaimer: Cognitive Investments LLC (“Cognitive Investments”) is a registered investment advisor. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Cognitive Investments and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure.The information provided is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice and it should not be relied on as such. It should not be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security. It does not take into account any investor's particular investment objectives, strategies, tax status or investment horizon. You should consult your attorney or tax advisorThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

Today Anna talks to Jesse about The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation by Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman.

Brian's work is inspired by and questions American society's live-to-work mentality. He is concerned with the cultural and environmental effects of this obsession, as well as the physical and mental health ramifications. In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, where, among other ideas, he states that by 2030 the standard of living would be dramatically higher; people, liberated from want (and without the desire to consume for the sake of consumption), would work no more than fifteen hours a week, devoting the rest of their time to leisure and culture. His work envisions a world where his prediction has come true.

John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and the father of modern macroeconomics. His novel lectures at King's College, Cambridge, inspired economists and policymakers of the time and continues to do so a hundred years later. In this podcast, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivers a speech inspired by one of Keynes' lectures to a young audience at the very same King's College. Transcript and webcast: https://bit.ly/3Tv4lfi

"Economic Possibilities for Our Time"

Welcome to the first "true crime" episode of the History of the Americans Podcast, the story of Oscar Hartzell and the Sir Francis Drake estate scam, perhaps the most audacious con of the 1920s, the great golden age of the confidence man. Hartzell swindled as many as 200,000 Midwesterners, many from my own state of Iowa, out of millions of dollars posing as the rightful heir to the lost estate of Sir Francis Drake. Eventually, it would drive him insane, at least as adjudged by the director of the behavioral clinic of the criminal court of Cook County, Illinois. Enjoy! X (Twitter): @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Selected references for this episode Richard Rayner, "The Admiral and the Con Man," The New Yorker, April 15, 2002 (pdf, subscription necessary) Richard Rayner, Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," 1930 (pdf). Hartzell v. United States, Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, August 16, 1934.

In Part Two of John Maynard Keynes, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt reconnect with Keynes in the 1930s, as he slowly pulls together his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This book changed everything for Keynes, and the rest of us, by establishing Keynesianism as a new way to understand both the economy and society. Ian and Dorian discuss the last decade of Keynes' life, from the New Deal to the Second World War to the Bretton Woods conference which established the post-war order. When Keynes died suddenly in 1946, his ardent disciples had just begun remaking the world. Did Keynes save capitalism from itself? “We are all Keynesians now,” declared Time magazine in 1965, but 10 years later a global economic crisis was opening the door to the neoliberal counter-revolution, led by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Were the Keynesians more Keynesian than Keynes himself? Should he be credited with the post-war boom and blamed for its dramatic implosion? Is the relationship between Keynesian and neoliberal visions more complex than it appears? And are Joe Biden and Keir Starmer taking us into a new age of Keynes? Reading list for both episodes Books Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman — Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes, 2011 Bradley W. Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, eds. — The Return to Keynes, 2010 Zach Carter — The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, 2020 Peter Clarke — Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, 2010 Roy Harrod — The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951 John Maynard Keynes — The Essential Keynes, 2015 Robert Skidelsky — John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman, 2004 Nicholas Wapshott — Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, 2011 Online: John Maynard Keynes, ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren', 1930 https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/archive/keynes_persuasion/Economic_Possibilities_for_our_Grandchildren.htm We Are All Keynesians Now, Time, 1965 https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,842353,00.html Tides of History podcast with Zach Carter https://podcasts.apple.com/bg/podcast/john-maynard-keynes-and-his-legacies-interview-with/id1257202425?i=1000476041925 Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Simon Williams. Music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production. https://twitter.com/OriginStorycast   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey discuss perhaps the most extraordinary individual they have encountered so far: John Maynard Keynes. The most significant economist since Adam Smith rewrote our understanding of the relationship between the state and the market. But Keynes was also a philosopher, a statesman, an aesthete and a hell of a writer: a one-man advertisement for the virtues of refusing to stay in your lane. In part one Dorian and Ian track Keynes' remarkable life in the fifty years leading up to his game changing “general theory” in the 1930s. They talk about his gilded youth at Eton and Cambridge, his complicated friendship with the Bloomsbury Group, his sensational journalism, his rivalries with classical economists, and his rise to wealth and influence. But for all his achievements, his policy prescriptions were usually ignored, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Great Depression. His failures made him Mister Told-you-so. Why was Keynes such a remarkable figure and why wouldn't politicians listen to him? Was he an arch-centrist in an age of extremes? Along the way we meet Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Oswald Mosley and zingers galore. Next week: the rise and fall (and rise again) of Keynesianism. Reading list for both episodes Books: Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman — Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes, 2011 Bradley W. Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, eds. — The Return to Keynes, 2010 Zach Carter — The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, 2020 Peter Clarke — Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, 2010 Roy Harrod — The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951 John Maynard Keynes — The Essential Keynes, 2015 Robert Skidelsky — John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman, 2004 Nicholas Wapshott — Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, 2011 Online: John Maynard Keynes, ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren', 1930 https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/archive/keynes_persuasion/Economic_Possibilities_for_our_Grandchildren.htm We Are All Keynesians Now, Time, 1965 https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,842353,00.html Tides of History podcast with Zach Carter https://podcasts.apple.com/bg/podcast/john-maynard-keynes-and-his-legacies-interview-with/id1257202425?i=1000476041925 Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Simon Williams. Music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production. https://twitter.com/OriginStorycast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why didn't we get the four-hour workday?, published by jasoncrawford on January 6, 2023 on LessWrong. John Maynard Keynes famously predicted in 1930 that by now we would only be working fifteen hours a week. What is less well-known is that his was nowhere near the only such prediction, nor the first—a wide range of commentators, including Charles Steinmetz and Buckminster Fuller, made similar forecasts. (And even Keynes's prediction is generally misquoted.) Why didn't any of them come true? I recently discussed this with Jason Feifer on his podcast Build for Tomorrow. Here's some elaboration with more quotes and charts. The predictions A 1934 book, The Economy of Abundance, summarizes many of the predictions (Chapter 2): The technocrats promised every family on the continent of North America $20,000 a year [about $400,000 today], and a sixteen-hour work week. This is perhaps the peak of promises based on an abundance economy. Charles P. Steinmetz saw a two-hour working day on the horizon—he was the scientist who made giant power possible—but he stipulated no family budget total beyond “necessities and comforts.” . Fred Henderson, in his Economic Consequences of Power Production, is more specific: “Without any further increase in our knowledge of power and of technical processes, or of our available materials, we could multiply production ten times over if the needs of the world were permitted to express themselves in effective demand. . It would not be a question of an eight-hour day or a six-day week, but more probably of a six-months working year—which is already the rule for university dons.” Buckminster Fuller is still more definite. Modern man, he calculates, is 630 times more able than was Adam. Eliminating wasteful forms of work, four million Americans laboring fifty-two seven-hour days in the year (364 working hours, an average of one per day) “could keep up with every survival need”—meaning basic necessities for the whole population. Walter N. Polakov announces that “fifty weeks, four days, six hours is enough”—a twenty-four hour week and two weeks' vacation. Harold Rugg in The Great Technology estimates a possible minimum living standard between ten- and twenty-fold greater than the minimums of 1929, on a sixteen- to twenty-hour work-week. . One can continue to cite such evidence indefinitely. Fortunately, A. M. Newman has been collecting it for years and saves us the trouble by the following summary: “Among them [such estimates] a substantial agreement is found that by better use of the mechanical facilities at our disposal we could produce many times our present supply of goods at considerably less effort.” The five-hour day tends to be the maximum estimate in Mr. Newman's collection. As for Keynes, his essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” wasn't even saying that a fifteen-hour work week would be necessary for production. He thought it would be necessary to satisfy our psychological need for work, implying that our physical needs could be satisfied with less (exactly how much less, he doesn't estimate): For many ages to come . everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich today, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter—to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. Why is the 40-hour work week still standard? Here are my hypotheses (not mutually exclusive): The predictions got the elasticity wrong When labor gets more productive, workers can choose to work less for the same real wage, to make more money by working the same amount, or something in betwee...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why didn't we get the four-hour workday?, published by jasoncrawford on January 6, 2023 on LessWrong. John Maynard Keynes famously predicted in 1930 that by now we would only be working fifteen hours a week. What is less well-known is that his was nowhere near the only such prediction, nor the first—a wide range of commentators, including Charles Steinmetz and Buckminster Fuller, made similar forecasts. (And even Keynes's prediction is generally misquoted.) Why didn't any of them come true? I recently discussed this with Jason Feifer on his podcast Build for Tomorrow. Here's some elaboration with more quotes and charts. The predictions A 1934 book, The Economy of Abundance, summarizes many of the predictions (Chapter 2): The technocrats promised every family on the continent of North America $20,000 a year [about $400,000 today], and a sixteen-hour work week. This is perhaps the peak of promises based on an abundance economy. Charles P. Steinmetz saw a two-hour working day on the horizon—he was the scientist who made giant power possible—but he stipulated no family budget total beyond “necessities and comforts.” . Fred Henderson, in his Economic Consequences of Power Production, is more specific: “Without any further increase in our knowledge of power and of technical processes, or of our available materials, we could multiply production ten times over if the needs of the world were permitted to express themselves in effective demand. . It would not be a question of an eight-hour day or a six-day week, but more probably of a six-months working year—which is already the rule for university dons.” Buckminster Fuller is still more definite. Modern man, he calculates, is 630 times more able than was Adam. Eliminating wasteful forms of work, four million Americans laboring fifty-two seven-hour days in the year (364 working hours, an average of one per day) “could keep up with every survival need”—meaning basic necessities for the whole population. Walter N. Polakov announces that “fifty weeks, four days, six hours is enough”—a twenty-four hour week and two weeks' vacation. Harold Rugg in The Great Technology estimates a possible minimum living standard between ten- and twenty-fold greater than the minimums of 1929, on a sixteen- to twenty-hour work-week. . One can continue to cite such evidence indefinitely. Fortunately, A. M. Newman has been collecting it for years and saves us the trouble by the following summary: “Among them [such estimates] a substantial agreement is found that by better use of the mechanical facilities at our disposal we could produce many times our present supply of goods at considerably less effort.” The five-hour day tends to be the maximum estimate in Mr. Newman's collection. As for Keynes, his essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” wasn't even saying that a fifteen-hour work week would be necessary for production. He thought it would be necessary to satisfy our psychological need for work, implying that our physical needs could be satisfied with less (exactly how much less, he doesn't estimate): For many ages to come . everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich today, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter—to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. Why is the 40-hour work week still standard? Here are my hypotheses (not mutually exclusive): The predictions got the elasticity wrong When labor gets more productive, workers can choose to work less for the same real wage, to make more money by working the same amount, or something in betwee...

Economic experts discuss how the Iron District downtown has an opportunity to impact the service industry in Milwaukee if it follows procedures similar to the Bucks' Deer District.

Wirkliche gesellschaftliche Alternativen müssen frei von Tauschlogik sein, so die Autorin Friederike Habermann. Shownotes Habermann, Friederike. 2018. Ausgetauscht. Warum gutes Leben für alle tauschlogikfrei sein muss. Sulzbach: Ulrike Helmer: https://www.ulrike-helmer-verlag.de/buchbeschreibungen/friederike-habermann-ausgetauscht/ Habermann, Friederike. 2016. Ecommony. UmCARE zum Miteinander. Sulzbach: Ulrike Helmer (Open Acess): https://akg-online.org/sites/default/files/habermann_2016_-_ecommony_-_umcare_zum_miteinander.pdf Website des Commons-Instituts: https://commons-institut.org/ Website von NOW Netzwerk Oekonomischer Wandel: https://netzwerk-oekonomischer-wandel.org/ Adam Smith (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Rosa Luxemburg (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg Varoufakis, Yanis. 2015. Time for Change: wie ich meiner Tochter die Wirtschaft erkläre. München: Hanser: https://fachbuch.hanser-ebooks.de/ebook/bid-1972005-time-for-change-wie-ich-meiner-tochter-die-wirtschaft-erklaere.html Davis, Mike. 2017. Late Victorian Holocausts. El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. London: Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2311-late-victorian-holocausts Steady-State Economy (Stationäre Wirtschaft) (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%C3%A4re_Wirtschaft John Maynard Keynes (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes Keynes, M. J. 1963 [1930]. "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren". In Essays in Persuasion. New York: W.W.Norton & Co. 358-373. (full PDF): http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf Grünes Wachstum (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnes_Wachstum Rifkin, Jeremy. 2019. Der globale Green New Deal. Warum die fossil befeuerte Zivilisation um 2028 kollabiert – und ein kühner ökonomischer Plan das Leben auf der Erde retten kann. Frankfurt/New York: Campus: https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wirtschaft-gesellschaft/wirtschaft/der_globale_green_new_deal-15614.html Studie des European Environmental Bureau zu Grünem Wachstum, 2019: "Decoupling Debunked. Evidence and arguments against green growth" (Englisch): https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ Deutsche Zusammenfassung der Studie "Decoupling Debunked. Evidence and arguments against green growth": https://www.bund.net/fileadmin/user_upload_bund/publikationen/nachhaltigkeit/nachhaltigkeit_gruenes_wachstum_entkopplung_studie.pdf "Was ist Degrowth?" Future Histories Kurzvideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJeb7DxXTtg Everything But Arms, EU Programm (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alles_au%C3%9Fer_Waffen Thomas Robert Malthus (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus Antonio Gramci (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2020 [1988]. Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation. Wien: Turia+Kant: https://www.turia.at/titel/spivak_s.php Adamczak, Bini. 2017. Beziehungsweise Revolution. 1917, 1968 und kommende. Berlin: Suhrkamp: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/bini-adamczak-beziehungsweise-revolution-t-9783518127216 Zapatistas (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional Poststrukturalismus (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poststrukturalismus Transformationsgesetz von Franz Oppenheimer (betr. Genossenschaften): http://www.wirtschaftslexikon24.com/e/transformationsgesetz/transformationsgesetz.htm Commons-Blog von Silke Helfrich: https://commons.blog/ Christian Felber: https://christian-felber.at/ Giegiold, Sven, Dagmar Emshoff. 2008. Solidarische Ökonomie im globalisierten Kapitalismus. Hamburg: VSA (Open Access): https://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/VSA_Giegold_ua_Solidarische_Oekonomie_komplett.pdf Schmelzer, Matthias, Andrea Vetter. 2021. Degrowth / Postwachstum zur Einführung. Hamburg: Junius: https://www.junius-verlag.de/Programm/Zur-Einfuehrung/Degrowth-Postwachstum-zur-Einfuehrung.html thematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden: S01E37 | Eva von Redecker zur Revolution für das Leben: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e37-eva-von-redecker-zur-revolution-fuer-das-leben/ S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/ S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ S01E28 | Joanna Pope zu Degrowth & Akzelerationismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e28-joanna-pope-zu-degrowth-amp-akzelerationismus/ S01E52 | Max Koch zur politischen Ökonomie des Degrowth: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e52-max-koch-zur-politischen-oekonomie-des-degrowth/ S01E36 | Ronja Morgenthaler & Kai Kuhnhenn zu Zukunft für alle: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e36-ronja-morgenthaler-amp-kai-kuhnhenn-zu-zukunft-fuer-alle/ S01E48 | Sabine Nuss zu Eigentum (Teil 1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e48-sabine-nuss-zu-eigentum-teil-1/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e49-sabine-nuss-zu-eigentum-teil-2/ S01E15 | mit Rouzbeh Taheri zu Enteignung & demokratischem Sozialismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e15-interview-mit-rouzbeh-taheri-zu-enteignung-amp-demokratischem-sozialismus/ S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Teil 1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/   Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?   Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FriederikeHabermann, #Tauschlogik, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #JanGroos, #Podcast, #Marktmechanismus, #Marktlogik, #Marktkapitalismus, #Kapitalismus, #Commons, #Commonismus, #Postwachstum, #GreenNewDeal, #GreenGrowth, #Degrowth, #GrünesWachstum, #Wirtschaft, #Ökonomik, #PluraleÖkonomik, #Sozioökonomik, #Wirtschaftswissenschaften, #HeterodoxeÖkonomie, #AlternativeWirtschaft, #Solidarität, #Liberalismus, #Markt, #Gemeinwohl, #Suffizienz    

Imagine a life where technological gains make us so productive that 15 hours a week constitutes a “full-time” job. The insane ramblings of two would-be men of leisure? Indeed. But also the prediction of a famous economist. No not the movie guy, the other one: John Maynard Keynes. According to his 1930 prediction, not only is such a reality possible, we're about 20 years late in achieving it. Was Keynes wrong or have we squandered our productivity gains on busywork?People, Places and Other Things Mentioned in This Episode:00:24 - Sarah Canatsey, Instructional Developed, University of Tennessee at Tennessee01:22 - Secret Side Hustles: Episode #26, Twice the Work in Half the Time: The Dual-Career Individual02:21 - Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes05:19 - The 15-Hour Workweek: Keynes and AOC Disagree08:59 - FIRE: Financial Independence/Retire Early15:09 - Frank W. MacDonald and The Chattanooga Times Free Press15:11 - Medal of Honor Heritage Center15:14 - Houston Museum of Decorative Arts15:16 - UTC Veterans Entrepreneurship Program17:02 - Too much time management: Episode #22, The Efficiency Paradox19:53 - Episode #8, The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 1)19:53 - Episode #9, The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 2)19:53 - The Thing About EmailClick here for transcript and episode webpage 

In episode 17 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI and a researcher passionate about the responsible governance of artificial intelligence. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSLinks:Will Technology Make Work Better for Everyone?Economic Possibilities for Our Children: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, Education, and LeisureTaking Superintelligence SeriouslyThe Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and MitigationRelease Strategies and the Social Impact of Language ModelsAll the News that's Fit to Fabricate: AI-Generated Text as a Tool of Media MisinformationToward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable ClaimsTimeline:(00:00) Intro(01:05) How did you get started in AI(07:05) Writing about AI on Slate(09:20) Start of PhD(13:00) AI and the End of Scarcity(18:12) Malicious Uses of AI(28:00) GPT-2 and Publication Norms(33:30) AI-Generated Text for Misinformation(37:05) State of AI Misinformation(41:30) Trustworthy AI(48:50) OpenAI Policy Research Team(53:15) OutroMiles is a researcher and research manager, and is passionate about the responsible governance of artificial intelligence. In 2018, he joined OpenAI, where he began as a Research Scientist and recently became Head of Policy Research. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where he is still a Research Affiliate).He also serves as a member of Axon's AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board. He completed a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University in 2019.Podcast Theme: “MusicVAE: Trio 16-bar Sample #2” from "MusicVAE: A Hierarchical Latent Vector Model for Learning Long-Term Structure in Music"Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (@andrey_kurenkov), a PhD student with the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab working on learning techniques for robotic manipulation and search. Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Why You Are Not a Conservative, Wokesters, Wake!, Infantilized Liberalism, The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren are Immense, Prudence Over Sustainability, and How Growth Starts Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Deirdre McCloskey is Professor of Economics and of History, Emerita, and Professor of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. One of her recent books is Why liberalism works: how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/message

We're back with more state, local, and urban issues -- maybe Sam has become a full convert! In this week's episode, we're joined by renowned urban economist Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. We begin by discussing The Survival of the City, Professor Glaeser's new book written with David Cutler. In just over half an hour, we get through several topics. How will cities adapt to pandemics, will work-from-home continue as it currently exists, and will insider groups continue to dominate local politics? What does the future of work look like in cities; will we ever approach the post-work urban future that Keynes described? Beyond exploring these questions, we also discuss how cities can and should think about race and inequality, both through administration and legislation. All of this and more in less time than it takes to commute on most U.S. subways (and find out why that is while you're listening)! Referenced Readings: Ken Auletta, The streets were paved with gold, (1980). Eric Bosio, Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, & Andrei Shleifer, “Public Procurement in Law and Practice,” NBER Working Paper, (2020) Leah Brooks & Zachary Liscow, “Infrastructure Costs,” (2020) Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City (2012). Edward Glaeser & David Cutler, Survival of the City (2021). Edward Glaeser & Andrei Shleifer, “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate,” The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, (2005). Tracy Gordon & David Schleicher, “High costs may explain crumbling support for US infrastructure,” Urban Wire (2015). John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” (1930).

The first machine age was about mechanical machines. We now live in a time of thinking machines. Erik Brynjolfsson joins Vasant Dhar in episode 18 of Brave New World to talk about the impact of AI on productivity and inequality -- and to explain why he remains optimistic about the prospects for humans in the AI era.   Useful resources: 1. The Second Machine Age -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. 2. Erik Brynjolfsson's website, SSRN page and Google Scholar page. 3. The coming productivity boom --  Erik Brynjolfsson and Georgios Petropoulos 4. Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock & Chad Syverson. 5. The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies --  Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson. 6. How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Avinash Collis. 7. GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers & Kevin J. Fox. 8. Digital Capital and Superstar Firms -- Prasanna Tambe, Lorin Hitt, Daniel Rock & Erik Brynjolfsson. 9. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work -- Congressional Testimony of Erik Brynjolfsson (September 24, 2019). 10. Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis -- Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi. 11. Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui & Meng Liu. 12. The Economics of Superstars -- Sherwin Rosen. 13. General Purpose Technologies "Engines of Growth?" -- Timothy F. Bresnahan & Manuel Trajtenberg. 14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism -- Anne Case and Angus Deaton. 15. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren -- John Maynard Keynes. 16. Understanding QE in the New World -- Episode 10 of Brave New World (w Paul Sheard). 17. The Nature of Intelligence -- Episode 7 of Brave New World (w Yann LeCun). 18. Uplift the Unremarkables -- Episode 2 of Brave New World (w Scott Galloway).

Tino Sehgal talks to Ben Luke about his unique work, which transforms the space in which it is shown through the power of movement and sound. Sehgal, who is based in Berlin, moved to art from dance after studying choreography alongside economics. His latest show, at Blenheim Palace, commissioned by the Blenheim Art Foundation, features his work from the last 20 years staged amid the Baroque palace and its gardens. It features interpreters or participants who enact "constructed situations" ranging from group work, where they sing in unison or move in formation, veering from slow controlled movement to dance or even game-playing, to more intimate pieces involving individuals or duos—but always directly engaging the viewer as a participant. Sehgal discusses the structures that underpin his work, making art that exists only in the moment or memory rather than as an object or through documentation, and why he sees it more in the tradition of sculpture and installation than performance art. He reflects on his early encounters with the art of Joseph Beuys and Yves Klein, his interest in the work of Antoine Watteau, the powerful effect of the works of radical theatre director Christoph Schlingensief and choreographer Felix Ruckert, how he regularly returns to William Forsythe's work In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and his response to the Belgian producers Soulwax and their 2manydjs project. And he responds to the questions we ask all our guests, including the ultimate question: what is art for? This episode is sponsored by ARTIKA.Links for this episode:Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Art FoundationBlenheim PalaceTino Sehgal at Globart Art Academy, Melk AbbeyJoseph Beuys's 7000 Oaks in KasselYves Klein ArchivesJean-Antoine Watteau's paintings in the LouvreAuguste Rodin's The KissXavier Le Roy, Product of Circumstances and context at tate.org.ukChristoph SchlingshiefFelix Ruckert and a performance of Hautnah (1995)Excerpt from In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe from its original performance in 1987, featuring Fanny Gaïda and Sylvie Guillem, Opéra National de ParisJohn Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our GrandchildrenMargaret MeadJohn Kenneth Galbreath's The Affluent Society2manydjs: Soulwax's official YouTube channelOde to Joy, Friedrich Schiller poem The Robots on Kraftwerk's YouTube channelSock It to Me on Missy Elliot's YouTube channel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Historically speaking, we live in an age of extraordinary abundance. We have long since passed the income thresholds when past economists believed our needs would be more than met and we'd be working 15-hour weeks, puzzling over how to spend our free time. And yet, few of us feel able to exult in leisure, and even many of today's rich toil as if the truest reward for work is more work. Our culture of work would be profoundly puzzling to those who came before us.James Suzman is an anthropologist who has spent the last 30 years living with and studying the Ju/'hoansi people of southern Africa, one of the world's enduring hunter-gatherer societies. And that project has given him a unique lens on our modern obsession with work.As Suzman documents in his new book, “Work: A Deep History From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots,” hunter-gatherer societies like the Ju/'hoansi spent only about 15 hours a week meeting their material needs despite being deeply impoverished by modern standards. But as we've gotten richer and invented more technology, we've developed a machine for generating new needs, new desires, new forms of status competition.So this is a conversation about the past, present and future of humanity's relationship to work and to want. We discuss what economists get wrong about scarcity, the lessons hunter-gatherer societies can teach us about desire, how the advent of farming radically altered people's conceptions of work and time, whether there's such a thing as human nature, the dangers of social and economic inequality, the role of advertising in shaping human desires, whether we should have a wealth tax and universal basic income, and much more.Mentioned: “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” by John Maynard Keynes“‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren' 75 Years after: A Global Perspective” by Fabrizio Zilibotti“Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck LuceBook recommendations:  King Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildEntangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeOther Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.

Is hard work a thing of the past for Americans? Should we enjoy our jobs? Why is unemployment so high? Listen to https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastors Keith Simon) andhttps://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ ( Patrick Miller) as they investigate these questions in this discussion on work ethic.   Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-love-your-neighbor-an-interview-with-chris-and-elizabeth-mckinney/ (How to Love Your Neighbor) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/why-im-not-going-to-heaven-my-favorite-verses-acts-3-21/ (Why I’m Not Going to Heaven).   Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you!  To learn more, visit ourhttps://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ ( website) and follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks ( Facebook),https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ ( Instagram), andhttps://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast ( Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks.   Outline 0:30 - Is the American work ethic dying or defining us? 5:30 - “https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-american-work-ethic-dying-11620858123 (Is the American Work Ethic Dying?)” and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:35-38&version=ESV (Matthew 9.35-38)  10:30 - Is the issue economics or our relationship with work?  13:45 - The gamification of life: working vs. playing games 20:45 - https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/why-im-not-going-to-heaven-my-favorite-verses-acts-3-21/ (Why I’m Not Going to Heaven) 23:15 - “http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf (Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren)” by John Maynard Keyes 25:05 - Derek Thompson’s “https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ (Workism is Making Americans Miserable)”: The religion of work 32:25 - https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/does-jesus-have-a-purpose-for-my-life-who-is-jesus-proverbs-16-4/ (Does Jesus Have a Purpose for My Life?) 36:10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI (David Foster Wallace on Worship) in Kenyon Commencement Speech 38:50 - God’s first command: Work 44:20 - How Daniel’s work served God 45:15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+29.7&version=NIV (Jeremiah 29.7): Following God’s calling 46:20 - https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-love-your-neighbor-an-interview-with-chris-and-elizabeth-mckinney/ (How to Love Your Neighbor) 48.35 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3.10&version=NIV (2 Thessalonians 3.10) and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+5.8&version=NIV (1 Timothy 5.8) 55:00 - Subscribe. Rate. Share.   Social Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks ( https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks) Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ ( https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/) Twitter:https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast ( https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast)   Passages Matthew 9.35-38: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:35-38&version=ESV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:35-38&version=ESV)  Jeremiah 29.7: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+29.7&version=NIV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+29.7&version=NIV)  2 Thessalonians 3.10: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3.10&version=NIV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3.10&version=NIV)  1 Timothy 5.8: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+5.8&version=NIV... Support this podcast

As I consider the variety of work I do on a daily and weekly basis–work for which I receive payment and not, work I do for pure enjoyment, and work I’d rather not do–it strikes me that most of what feels off about it all, comes from having to do it. It is the sensation that someone or something is looking over my shoulder with a critical eye waiting impatiently for me to fulfil some prior commitment or other. And as this sensation of external pressure weighs on my consciousness, I wonder was it always this way. It seems to me, and I’ve written on this many times before, that with the advent of industrialisation came the widespread imperative to work under command. Although, I will accept that work may have always involved a relatively flush party and another willing to work for some of that gold. With that in mind, perhaps regular joe soap workers have never been free to direct their own work.Being somewhat obsessed with the nature and value of daily work as I am, and why we seem to have such a dichotomous relationship with it, I bought a few books on the history of work. One is The Oxford Book of Work, an anthology that draws upon a range of views and experiences of work across the centuries from writers, poets, scientists, clergy, journalists, and laypeople. It’s an account of work over the entire spectrum of life from youth through to retirement contrasting, as the author says, the delights of occupation and the harshness of compulsory labour. Some accounts suggest the glory and honour of work. Others, such as Oscar Wilde, suggest work is mentally and morally injurious. He said of manual labour;“And as I have mentioned the word labour, I cannot help saying that a great deal of nonsense is being written and talked nowadays about the dignity of manual labour. There is nothing necessarily dignified about manual labour at all, and most of it is absolutely degrading. It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such. To sweep a slushy crossing for eight hours on a day when the east wind is blowing is a disgusting occupation. To sweep it with mental, moral, or physical dignity seems to me to be impossible. To sweep it with joy would be appalling. Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine.”“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.” What a great line. And he’s right, to an extent. I would like to believe that no matter what work we do, there is the opportunity to do it well and with enthusiasm and enjoy it. Manual labour under the force of our own mental steam is not arduous and undignified. On the contrary, I have found it to be some of the most satisfying work there is. However, when under the command of another then it takes on an entirely different colour. The challenge then is to do the work for its own sake without the promise of reward or applause. This represents the epitome of human achievement, and apparently, in agreement, Rudyard Kipling put it as follows in his 1892 title, The Seven Seas;And only The Master shall praise us, and only The Master shall blame;And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are.Nevertheless, many people are bored and untested in their work. The fun in work is in being pressed to the limits of our ability, but if we’d rather not be there in the first place, then it’s hard to become engrossed to the extent that D.H. Lawrence implied when he wrote of Work in 1929;There is no point in work unless it absorbs you like an absorbing game.If it doesn’t absorb you, if it’s never any fun, don’t do it.Easier said than done, perhaps. Many of us fall into jobs without much conscious decision making on our part. We need a few quid to live and to buy nice things–that’s the primary motivation–so we take whatever work there is. An apprenticeship, a sales job in a shoe shop, a few hours behind the counter in the local newsagent; whatever is going. It’s what I did. I took a job I was told to take, and although I wanted to do other things, I happened to enjoy the work and did it to the best of my ability. I was happy on one level to be out of school and to be treated as an adult, although I was little more than a skivvy for the first few years. It didn’t occur to me that I needed to get out. Work didn’t feel like an imposition until much later.Working alone brings me the most enjoyment. Even when I’m in the company of others at work, I mostly keep to myself. Nobody is looking over my shoulder these days; there’s no pressure to perform. So I go about my business at my own pace. Sometimes I go fast, sometimes slow, but always under my own mental steam. There’s great freedom and peace in that. Lillian B. Rubin, a 28-year-old trucker, seemed to be on the same page when in 1972 he said;There’s a good feeling when I’m out there on the road. There ain’t nobody looking over your shoulder and watching what you’re doing. When I worked in a warehouse, you’d be punching in and punching out, and bells ringing all the time. On those jobs, you’re not thinking, you’re just doing what they tell you. Sure, now I’m expected to bring her in on time, but a couple of hours one way or the other don’t make no difference. And there ain’t nobody but me to worry about how I get her there.Lillian Rubin spoke about freedom and autonomy, being largely in command of his own work and being at one with his sense of self in his daily activity. It is to be treated like a human being and not like a machine. This is the freedom we are all looking for in our daily work. It’s just so fulfilling to be in charge of our own daily activities, but very few of us can say that we have that personal autonomy crucial for happiness at work. The need to survive often takes over and dictates our lot. So we leave our children, join the lines of traffic and go to work at jobs we’d rather not.The structure of daily work is changing for many people, with technology taking a further foothold and more of our time spent working remotely. But I wonder if these changes will be for the better. I am hopeful, if not a bit cynical, about it all. Employers are reaching further into our personal space in many ways, and there seems little to halt their advance. After all, the pandemic has made it necessary. The roads are busy with commuter traffic again too, and taking into account the upheaval of the working lives of so many, it seems that not much has really changed. Our attitudes to work are still largely comprised of the idea that we work for them, so we must do what we’re told. As we contemplate a workplace utopia where machines do the work and devote our time to personal advancement, we imagine that we will gain the freedom to do what we really want in the future. Maybe, but I honestly can’t see while Capitalist ideologies dictate economics and social structure. While we remain consumers of things rather than producers, things only get worse. The utopic workplace future is not a new idea either. Over the last few centuries, people have imagined an idyllic existence where we wouldn’t be concerned for work but rather leisure.“The desirable medium is one which mankind have often known how to hit: when they labour, they do it with all their might, and especially with all their mind; but to devote to labour, for mere pecuniary gain, fewer hours in the day, fewer days in the year, and fewer years of life.”- John Stewart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848“The chief model by which labour is likely to be made less irksome is not by a change in its character or its intrinsic attractiveness, but by a diminution in its severity. It will probably be lightened by the increasing perfection of tools, and the increasing use of machinery; though on the other hand, it may be that from this cause its monotony will become no less, perhaps greater.”F.W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, 1911Quite insightful from Mr Taussig. Compulsory working hours may, on the whole, have reduced, and conditions for workers may have improved. But wages have, in effect, been on a decline since the ‘70s, and in countries such as the US, the number of working hours are greater now than in the 1960s. As technology has advanced, offering the fulfilment of John Meynard Keynes’ promise, work appears to have become more demanding. Keynes wrote in Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren in 1930;Thus for the first time since his creation, man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem–how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely, agreeably and well. The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance […] For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We will do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich today, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. However, Mr Keynes utopia consisting of a 15-hour workweek didn’t consider our propensity to snatch captivity from the jaws of freedom. Nor did he take weight of the ever-expanding greed of the few and their desire to control and profit at the disadvantage of millions of others. The operators of the corporate machine give up only the minimum they are required under legislation and where they offer more, you must give them your soul.I don’t believe the future of work will give us workplaces that reflect the needs of human beings, I mean, really. While we have hierarchical systems where the vast majority of profits go to the smallest number of people human beings will remain merely cogs–disposable and replaceable. In this, the capitalist system is flawed. It makes machines of men and women, and nothing has changed in this regard over the centuries. We’re still writing about the assault on the masses that is working life. There are, of course, exceptions, but they do not refute the rule–human beings are blagarded by work, and all efforts to change things are merely a sticking plaster on an open wound.Work can be pleasurable, fulfiling, and rewarding, but we can’t sit around and wait for employers to make it so. We must do it for ourselves. I’ll leave you with these words from French Philosopher Simone Weil from Oppression and Liberty, 1955;“To the conflict set up by money between buyers and sellers of labour has been added another conflict, set up by the very means of production, between those who have the machine at their disposal, and those who are at the disposal of the machine.”An Investigation of Daily WorkThis summer, I’m commencing a little experiment, an ad-hoc investigation, you might say, into feelings about work. I’m taking the vicinity where I live, Dublin 7, and I’m going out to capture the thoughts and feelings of work from ordinary people in an area of Dublin called Stoneybatter. I’ll be selecting a variety of professions and having a conversation about their work. Hopefully, I’ll have some good audio to share with you. More on that very soon.Hey, thanks for being here. This was Sunday Letters, the free weekly newsletter on life, work, & the pursuit of happiness. The weekly issue is free and has been since its inception in 2015. I enjoy writing it, and if you enjoy it too, please consider becoming a supporter. You’ll continue to get Sunday Letters along with these additions. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sundayletters.larrygmaguire.com/subscribe

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Today's guest is Matt Klein, senior writer and economics commentator at Barron's. We discuss his new book with Michael Pettis, which argues that global imbalances are the result of rising inequality around the world. It's underconsumption theory at its most sophisticated. We ask him what implications this has for politics. Plus, we welcome a new co-host: Chris Hong, a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago.***LINKS***Matthew Klein on Twitter: @M_C_KleinMatt Klein at Barron's: https://www.barrons.com/authors/8566Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Wars-Are-Class-International/dp/0300244177/Review of Trade Wars are Class Wars: https://phenomenalworld.org/reviews/trade-warsElaboration by Yakov Feygin and Dominik Leusder: https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-class-politics-of-the-dollar-systemPettis on the limits to debt: https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/80054Keynes on the "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" (pdf): https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdf

In 1930 economist John Maynard Keynes writes Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, offering his insights on what the world might be like in 2030. Among them a rise in living standards, a reduction in hours worked and the end of scarcity. 90 years later John Quiggin revisits and evaluates the renown economist’s predictions.

In this episode of Rosie & BJ Save the World, the co-hosts offer suggestions on saving the world and your budget at the same time with universal basic income (UBI). Most ideas of UBI include a $1,200 monthly check for all citizens over the age of 18 — regardless of income level. The question is: How the heck do you pay for it? Resources for Saving the World

#38. April 4, 2020. A Story Waiting to Pierce Us: Economic Possibilities for Our Children with Kristin Eggen from Norway. Is the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis an opportunity to dream a new dream and an economic future based on love? Where nature will remind us that cooperation is a fundamental rule of our collective flourishing? In the end, LOVE works. Oslo (Norway)-based high school teacher Kristin Eggen joins me today to explore my ideas about how the world might get through this economic pandemic that has gripped the world, the outcome of a coronavirus (Covid-19) that has paralyzed our lives. Kristin teaches law, religion and philosophy to the next generation of our leaders. We explore the possible options for how nations can adopt new monetary and economic systems that would provide sufficient income for a good life. Can we reboot the global economic hard drive to eliminate all debt and align money creation with well-being and even love? Is this economic crisis the window we have long been waiting for to test new monetary systems whether in Canada, Norway, Singapore or the USA? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-anielski/message

If the economy is better understood as an evolving system, an out-of-equilibrium ecology composed of agents that adapt to one another’s strategies, how does this change the way we think about our future? By drawing new analogies between technology and life, and studying how tools evolve by building on and recombining what has come before, what does this tell us about economics as a sub-process of our self-organizing biosphere? Over the last forty years, previously siloed scientific disciplines have come together with new data-driven methods to trace the outlines of a unifying economic theory, and allow us to design new human systems that anticipate the planet-wide disruptions of our rapidly accelerating age. New stories need to be articulated, ones that start earlier than human history, and in which societies work better when engineered in service to the laws of physics and biology they ultimately follow…This week’s guest is W. Brian Arthur, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and Visiting Researcher at Xerox PARC.  In this second part of our two-episode conversation, we discuss technology as seen through the lens of evolutionary biology, and how he foresees the future of the economy as our labor market and financial systems are increasingly devoured by artificial intelligence.If you enjoy this podcast, please help us reach a wider audience by leaving a review at Apple Podcasts, or by sharing the show on social media. Thank you for listening!Visit our website for more information or to support our science and communication efforts.Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast Theme Music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInBrian’s Website.Brian’s Google Scholar page.“Where is technology taking the economy?” in McKinsey, 2017.The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves.“Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered” by Gould & Eldredge."A natural bias for simplicity" by Mark Buchanan in Nature Physics."Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" by John Maynard Keynes.

What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come.ShownotesRichard on Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Richard_BarbrookRichard on Twitter:https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=deHomepage "Imaginary Futures":http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/Homepage "Class Wargames":https://www.classwargames.net/?tag=richard-barbrookBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1995. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture 6(1). 44-72:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Barbrook, Richard. 2000. "Cyber Communism". In Science as Culture 9(1). 5-40:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/cyber-communism-how-the-americans-are-superseding-capitalism-in-cyberspace/Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative:https://digitalliberties.org.uk/Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun):http://gamesforthemany.org/Homepage Technopolitics Research Group:http://www.technopolitics.info/Hanna, Thomas und Joe Bilsborough. 2018. "The ‘Preston Model' and the modern politics of municipal socialism". In openDemocracy 12(2018):https://www.academia.edu/39696129/The_Preston_Model_and_the_modern_politics_of_municipal_socialism?email_work_card=view-paperWiki on "Austro Marxism":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AustromarxismReport "Alternative Models of Ownership":https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alternative-Models-of-Ownership.pdfHomepage "The World Transformed" Festival:https://theworldtransformed.org/Newspeak House (group of political technologists):https://www.nwspk.com/Marx, Karl. 2015. Grundrisse. marxists.org:https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdfWiki about Robert Owen:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_OwenArchive of the American Society for Cybernetics:http://asc-cybernetics.org/online-library/Homepage "Virtual Futures":http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/Richta, Radovan. 1969. Civilization at the Crossroads. New York: Routledge:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315177663Phillips, Leigh und Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People's Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmartMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesStafford Beer on Monoskop (with short video on Project Cybersyn):https://monoskop.org/Stafford_BeerWiki "Project Cybersyn" (socialist cybernetics in Chile):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynBastani, Aaron. 2020. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communismHomepage Novara Media (of which Aaron Bastani is a co-founder):https://novaramedia.com/Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. “Digital Socialism". In New Left Review 116/117:https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismCampaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/German campaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4tagewoche.de/Exhibition "Red Vienna" at the MUSA in Vienna:https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/upcoming/detail/das-rote-wien-1919-1934.htmlKeynes, John Maynard. 1930. “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In Essays in Persuasion. New York: Harcourt Brace. 358-373:https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdfWiki Charles Fourier:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_FourierWiki ARPANET:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANETWiki RAND Corporation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_CorporationWiki "Austrian School of Economics":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_SchoolWiki Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekWiki "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_SerfdomThematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden:Was ist die Kalifornische Ideologie? Future Histories Kurzvideo:https://youtu.be/LedG4UgG3t8 If you like Future Histories, you can support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me via office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureHistoriesPodcast/featuredwww.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#RichardBarbrook, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Cybernetics, #Kybernetik, #Podcast, #CalifornianIdeology, #KalifornischeIdeologie, #Hayek, #Monoskop, #AndyCameron, #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #EvgenyMorozov, #ImaginaryFutures, #SiliconValley, #Economy, #TheRegulationOfLiberty, #HypermediaResearch, #NetRevolution, #DotComCapitalism, #algorithm, #Algorithmus, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren

What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come.ShownotesRichard on Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Richard_BarbrookRichard on Twitter:https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=deHomepage "Imaginary Futures":http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/Homepage "Class Wargames":https://www.classwargames.net/?tag=richard-barbrookBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1995. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture 6(1). 44-72:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Barbrook, Richard. 2000. "Cyber Communism". In Science as Culture 9(1). 5-40:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/cyber-communism-how-the-americans-are-superseding-capitalism-in-cyberspace/Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative:https://digitalliberties.org.uk/Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun):http://gamesforthemany.org/Homepage Technopolitics Research Group:http://www.technopolitics.info/Hanna, Thomas und Joe Bilsborough. 2018. "The ‘Preston Model' and the modern politics of municipal socialism". In openDemocracy 12(2018):https://www.academia.edu/39696129/The_Preston_Model_and_the_modern_politics_of_municipal_socialism?email_work_card=view-paperWiki on "Austro Marxism":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AustromarxismReport "Alternative Models of Ownership":https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alternative-Models-of-Ownership.pdfHomepage "The World Transformed" Festival:https://theworldtransformed.org/Newspeak House (group of political technologists):https://www.nwspk.com/Marx, Karl. 2015. Grundrisse. marxists.org:https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdfWiki about Robert Owen:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_OwenArchive of the American Society for Cybernetics:http://asc-cybernetics.org/online-library/Homepage "Virtual Futures":http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/Richta, Radovan. 1969. Civilization at the Crossroads. New York: Routledge:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315177663Phillips, Leigh und Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People's Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmartMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesStafford Beer on Monoskop (with short video on Project Cybersyn):https://monoskop.org/Stafford_BeerWiki "Project Cybersyn" (socialist cybernetics in Chile):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynBastani, Aaron. 2020. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communismHomepage Novara Media (of which Aaron Bastani is a co-founder):https://novaramedia.com/Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. “Digital Socialism". In New Left Review 116/117:https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismCampaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/German campaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4tagewoche.de/Exhibition "Red Vienna" at the MUSA in Vienna:https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/upcoming/detail/das-rote-wien-1919-1934.htmlKeynes, John Maynard. 1930. “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In Essays in Persuasion. New York: Harcourt Brace. 358-373:https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdfWiki Charles Fourier:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_FourierWiki ARPANET:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANETWiki RAND Corporation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_CorporationWiki "Austrian School of Economics":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_SchoolWiki Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekWiki "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_SerfdomThematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden:Was ist die Kalifornische Ideologie? Future Histories Kurzvideo:https://youtu.be/LedG4UgG3t8 If you like Future Histories, you can support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me via office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureHistoriesPodcast/featuredwww.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#RichardBarbrook, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Cybernetics, #Kybernetik, #Podcast, #CalifornianIdeology, #KalifornischeIdeologie, #Hayek, #Monoskop, #AndyCameron, #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #EvgenyMorozov, #ImaginaryFutures, #SiliconValley, #Economy, #TheRegulationOfLiberty, #HypermediaResearch, #NetRevolution, #DotComCapitalism, #algorithm, #Algorithmus, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren

A quick little update from Taipei. A couple links from the podcast: Revisiting Keynes Prediction for a Post-Work 2030 in “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” Luke Kanies Podcast Interview Curiosity Conversation With Paul Would love any feedback - e-mail Paul.

“How will we all keep busy when we only have to work 15 hours a week?” That was the question that actually worried the economist John Maynard Keynes when he wrote his short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in 1930.  Over the next century, he predicted, the economy would become so productive that people would barely need to work at all. So what happened? Why are we so obsessed with productivity today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I do here what I suspect the folks at Planet Money failed to do; to actually read the 1930 John Maynard Keynes essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren." I'm glad I did. His message was completely unexpected… and refreshing.