Technology & Innovation
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Conference paper
Precarious Condition: A Challenge For New Forms Of Struggle
Feb 2015
This text is part of a research project still in working progress that collects different contributions by the author and rewrite and reanalyse some reflections, already present, in a different form, in some publications:
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Working paper
The Labor Market Consequences of Electricity Adoption: Concrete Evidence from the Great Depression
Feb 2015
When the adoption of a new labor‐saving technology increases labor productivity, it is an open question whether the economy adjusts in the medium‐term by decreasing employment or increasing output. This paper studies the effects of cheaper electricity on the labor market during the Great Depression.
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Working paper
Contagion Risk and Network Design
Feb 2015
Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same time, transmit external threats. Individuals therefore invest in security to protect themselves. However, the incentives to invest in security depend on their network exposures. We study the problem of designing a network that provides the right individual incentives.
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Working Paper Series
Labor in the Twenty-First Century: The Top 0.1% and the Disappearing Middle-Class
Jan 2015
The ongoing explosion of the incomes of the richest households and the erosion of middle-class employment opportunities for most of the rest have become integrally related in the now-normal operation of the U.S. economy.
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Much Ado About Cyber Security
Jan 5, 2015
Private data is leaked more and more in our society. Wikileaks, Facebook, and identity theft are just three examples. Network defenses are constantly under attack from cyber criminals, organized hacktivists, and even disgruntled ex-employees.
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Years granted:
2015
Copyrights and Creativity: Historical Evidence from Literature, Science, and Music
This research project improves our understanding of the effects of intellectual property rights—and in particular copyrights—on creativity and innovation.
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Years granted:
2015
Financial Innovation and Central Banking in China: a Money View
This research project develops a “Money View” analysis of the recent evolution of China’s financial system.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014, 2015
Digitally Tracking Technologies and Their Effects Across Time and Space
This research project uses information from digitized Google books and library catalogues to create new measures of technological innovation and diffusion for OECD countries from 1850 to the present.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Innovation and the State: How Should Government Finance and Implement Innovation Policy?
This research project offers a historical taxonomy of organizational ways that governments fund and implement industrial and innovation policy as well as a taxonomy of contemporary implementation practices.
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Years granted:
2015
What Lenders See
This research project examines the long process of innovation at Fair Isaac, the analytics firm behind the FICO scoring system.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014, 2015
Innovation Systems: Positive and Normative Perspectives
This research project explores the causes and consequences of the way countries innovate and the economic foundations for the government’s direct involvement in conducting innovation.
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How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future
Dec 8, 2014
Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to generate technological innovations — to put bold ideas to work and then bring them to market.
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Working Paper Series
Skill Development and Sustainable Prosperity: Cumulative and Collective Careers versus Skill-Biased Technical Change
Dec 2014
There is widespread and growing concern about the availability of good jobs in the U.S. economy. Inequality has been growing for thirty years and is now at levels not seen since the 1920s. Stable and remunerative employment has become harder for U.S. workers to find.
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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money
Oct 19, 2014
An Open Letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
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Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty
Oct 16, 2014
Apple should be returning profits to workers who have invested their time and effort into generating its products and to taxpayers who have funded the investments in the physical infrastructure and human knowledge so critical to Apple’s success.