SOURCE ITEMS
Making matters worse, the return on investment in education is falling, because the economy is growing slowly and changing rapidly, making it difficult for some graduates to secure employment that takes advantage of their knowledge and skills. Universities are often slow to adapt their curricula to the economy’s needs, while new technologies and business models are exacerbating the winner-take-all phenomenon.
Mohamed A. El-Erian, America’s Education Bubble, Project Syndicate, November 9 2015. Accessed November 9, 2015.
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9/11/2015-A further sharp downturn in emerging market economies and world trade has weakened global growth to around 2.9% this year – well below the long-run average – and is a source of uncertainty for near-term prospects, says the OECD.
Emerging market slowdown and drop in trade clouding global outlook, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Accessed November 9, 2015.
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The demonstration is significant for two reasons. First, the tasks the robot is being asked to perform aren’t rigidly defined. Instead the robot needs to identify and adapt to a complex situation involving several variables. … But that technology migration is underway, and it will change the way products are manufactured and delivered. … On the robotics front, that means we’re going to see more flexible systems that can switch between tasks on the fly.
Greg Nichols, Why a fruit sorting robot will disrupt industrial automation Adaptable, smart, and cheap. Welcome to the future of automation, ZDNet, November 7, 2015. Accessed November 9, 2015.
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Without human advisers — people are the biggest expense at any securities firm — the new ventures can charge annual fees of 0.5 percent of assets under management or less. That undercuts full-service brokers, which typically charge annual fees of at least 1 percent.
Hugh Son, A Money-Managing Robot Is About to Join BofA’s Thundering Herd, Bloomberg Business, November 6, 2015. Accessed November 9, 2015.
COMMENTS
The old economic narrative that each nation has it’s economic destiny in its own hands is dead. The old economic narrative that a rising tide lifts all boats is dead. The old economic narrative that new jobs in new industries are created faster than automation displaces workers in existing industries is also dead. What this means is that the institutional and policy logics of job creation that served Americans and other western peoples well though the middle of the 20th century are dead.
We must replace those outdated logics with new ones that fit the realities of an Inclusive World Economy in which all destinies are tied together and rights to income can no longer be tied almost exclusively to having a wealth producing job.
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