Nearly half of Americans believe artificial intelligence will hurt their daily lives more than help them, and a growing share ...

Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the Global Economics and Management group, delivered a live presentation on technology and inequality in ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is sounding the alarm that generative artificial intelligence could impact a significant share of jobs worldwide, and warned the technology's disruption of the ...

Not only are women more financially responsible than their male counterparts, but they are also increasingly losing out at work at a time when technology is developing at a rate of knots. As the World ...

Plus: the US has accused Russia of meddling ahead of the Presidential election This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

1. Technology triggers an explosion of growth and inequality During the Han dynasty, new iron-working techniques led to better plows and irrigation tools. Harvests boomed, enabling the Chinese empire ...

One factor that helped entrench wealth inequality five millennia ago was the advent of the ox-drawn plow, finds a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Literature. Credit: Richard Nicolaüs Roland ...

There is a Big Lie pushed by centrist types that is almost as pernicious as the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It is that inequality was driven by technology, an autonomous force in ...