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Technology: The great job-creating machine

Geoff Riley

30th June 2018

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Ian Stewart argues that the characteristics of individual jobs change a lot over time. Does the emergence of and rapid adoption of new technologies create more new (different) jobs than it destroys?

Technology: The great job-creating machine
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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