Super interesting! "Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk" by Brice Green, Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Lawrence D. W. Schmidt. lawrencedwschmidt.com/wp-content/u...

Super interesting! "Economic Development According to Chandler" by Niklas Engbom, Hannes Malmberg, Tommaso Porzio, Federico Rossi, and Todd Schoellman. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rzty1...

Highly relevant! "Navigating Life with Low Literacy and Numeracy: New Results from the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills" (OECD Skills Studies) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Highly relevant! "Employment Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings" by Moritz Kuhn, Leanne Nam, and Gašper Ploj. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Highly relevant! "Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI" (United Nations) www.un.org/independent-...

Food for thought! "When GDP Misleads: Inferring Living Standards from the Value of a Statistical Life" by Philip Trammell and Charles I. Jones. www.nber.org/papers/w35382

Highly relevant! "Engines of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations" by Oded Galor. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Highly relevant! "Rewiring Europe’s Productivity Framework: Aligning Investment, Innovation, and Diffusion" by Bart Van Ark. www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/sint...

Thought-provoking! "Baby Busts and Growth Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy" by Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Keelan Beirne, and Andrew Scott. economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Looking forward to reading this book! "The Shortest History of Innovation: From the Wheel to Gene Editing, AI, and Beyond―How New Ideas Shape Our World" by Andrew Leigh. amzn.to/4wa3DWt

Super interesting! "On the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Longevity, Institutions, and Patience" by Margarita Gatsou and Uwe Sunde. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Food for thought! "The Productivity J-Curve from an International Perspective: Is the United States Unique?" by Ahmed Bounfour, Kazuma Edamura, Takayuki Ishikawa, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Alberto Nonnis, and Konomi Tonogi. www.productivity.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Thought-provoking! "Europe's Innovation Problem Is a Competition Problem" by Tommaso Valletti. cepr.org/system/files...

Highly relevant! "The Potential for Sustained Productivity Impetus from GenAI" by Martin Neil Baily, David M. Byrne, Aidan T. Kane, and Paul E. Soto. csls.ca/ipm-archive/...

Super interesting! "Growth with New and Old Technologies" by Bernardo Ribeiro. cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Highly recommended! OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2026 "The Compendium of Productivity Indicators provides an overview of recent and long-term productivity trends across OECD countries and, where possible, accession candidate countries." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Super interesting! "Changes in Returns to Multidimensional Skills across Cohorts" by Lorenzo Navarini. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Super interesting! "Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage" by Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt. "We find that AI narrows wage inequality and raises average wages across scenarios ranging from slow to rapid AI progress." www.nber.org/papers/w35353

Super interesting! "Address to ‘The Invisible Mind: The Economics of AI’ conference, Economic Society of Australia (NSW Branch), Sydney," by Andrew Leigh. "So the central question is simple: when an AI agent acts, whose interests does it serve?" ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/an...

Super interesting! "Idea Rents and Firm Growth" by Timo Boppart, Peter J. Klenow, Reiko Laski, and Huiyu Li. klenow.com/Idea_Rents.pdf

Super interesting! "Stellar Skills: Superstar Firms and the Specialization of Human Capital" by Eugenia Menaguale. eumena.github.io/files/em_jmp...

Super interesting! "The Decline in the Transmission of Scientific Ideas" by Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iq8dg...

Very valuable! "Deflating natural capital: Measuring the real value of freshwater ecosystem services" by Alice Bartolini, Joe Grice, Paul Ekins, Martin Weale, and Silvia Ferrini. www.escoe.ac.uk/deflating-na...

Highly relevant! "The short‑ and medium‑term effects of structural reforms: a reassesment" by Joana Duran-Franch, Alvaro Leandro, Sébastien Turban, Nicolas Ruiz, Elisa Mitteldorf, and Iris Smiderle. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Food for thought! "The Value of One Office Day a Month" by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino, and Cem Ozguzel. www.nber.org/papers/w35331

Food for thought! "Prompted to Start: How Generative AI is Transforming Entrepreneurship" by Jan Bena, Bo Bian, and Mariassunta Giannetti. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thought-provoking! "Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach" by Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu. amzn.to/4v8aqzP

Highly relevant! "AI and skills: What we know so far" (OECD Policy Brief) "A lack of skills is holding back the adoption of AI: many businesses, especially SMEs, report that shortages of relevant skills limit their ability to use AI." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Super interesting! "Data-driven automation" by Maryam Farboodi, Andrew Koh, and Anchi Xia. drive.google.com/file/d/18Fm4...

Food for thought! "Are carbon tariffs climate policy?" by Gregory Casey, Kyle C. Meng, and Ivan Rudik. www.nber.org/papers/w35307

Super interesting! "Innovation without Borders? The Geography of Technological Diffusion" by Baumann, Cullen, Faia, Ferrando, Perez-Truglia, Rariga "innovation diffusion and strategic complementarities in AI investment are much stronger domestically than internationally" www.nber.org/papers/w35314

Highly relevant! "Foreign Political Risk and Technological Change" by Joel P. Flynn, Antoine Levy, Jacob Moscona, and Mai Wo. joelflynn.com/wp-content/u...

Thought-provoking! "Automation and Repression" by Daron Acemoglu, A. Arda Gitmez, and Mehdi Shadmehr. economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Highly relevant! "Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI" by Ethan Mollick. "The challenge is no longer simply adopting new technology. It is learning how to think, work, and live in a world where machines are sometimes smarter than us." amzn.to/4dPHHtA

Super interesting! "Defining Innovatisation: The Case of NewSpace and the Changing Space Sector" by Benoit Cornet, Marc-André Chavy-Macdonald, and Dominique Foray. www.nber.org/papers/w35254

Super interesting! "Beyond Exposure: Predicting AI Adoption Based On Comparative Advantage" by Ilse Lindenlaub, Ryungha Oh, María Alejandra Rodríguez, and Laura Veldkamp. cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Food for thought! "Will AI Break the University? Field Notes from a Tough Year" by Rory Truex. "...we need recenter the human part of the university: the student-teacher relationship." rorytruex.substack.com/p/will-ai-br...

A highly relevant debate on productivity measurement! "The Mismeasurement of Europe’s Productivity" by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, and Luis Garicano. projectsyndicate.substack.com/p/the-mismea...

Highly relevant! "The Missing Value of Data" by Ankit Bhutani, Guillermo Ordoñez, and Laura Veldkamp. www.nber.org/system/files...

Food for thought! "Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work" by Alvin E. Roth. amzn.to/4wH5SSx

One crucial question, convincing answers? Certainly super interesting food for thought! "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity" by Daron Acemoglu. amzn.to/4dfRKb6

Edmund Phelps, RIP He was an inspiring and influential economist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006. Among his many important contributions, his book "Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change" is highly relevant for our network. amzn.to/4nvEa6S

Thought-provoking! "Thinking AI: How Artificial Intelligence Emulates Human Understanding" by John MacCormick. amzn.to/4nwLIWZ

Highly relevant! "Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion" by Charles I. Jones and Christopher Tonetti. web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Jones...

Impressive, informative, and thought-provoking! "The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence" by Sebastian Mallaby. amzn.to/4tgAwiJ

Highly recommended! "Experimental Economics: Theory and Practice" by John A. List. amzn.to/4cEqylR

Highly relevant! "The Macroeconomic Effects of AI Uncertainty" by Juan Reyes. Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... AI Uncertainty (AIU) Index: juanrufinoreyes.owlstown.net/pages Blog post: www.escoe.ac.uk/why-ai-uncer...

Food for thought! "Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore" by Ben Casselman. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

Highly relevant! "How AI may reshape career pathways to better jobs" by Justin Heck, Mark Muro, Shriya Methkupally, and Joseph Siegmund. "AI is poised to erode the pathways workers use to transition from low- to higher-wage work." www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

Super interesting! "What Makes New Work Different from More Work?" by David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna M. Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller. "new work serves as a countervailing force to automation...by generating new domains of human expertise that command market premiums." www.nber.org/papers/w34986