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There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.

~David Autor

Topics: Articles Because Beneficial Better Cooking Dinners Go Good Much Mutually Out People Reason Research Specialize Than Us Who Write I Write

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The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods that other countries can do more cheaply.

~David Autor

Topics: Advantage Because Cheaply Comparative Countries Export Goods High-Tech Import Less More Other Other Countries Strong Tend Tends

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People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

~David Autor

Topics: About Also Apple Beneficial Better Better Off Between Clear Companies Competition Costs Everything False General Good Google Loses Makes Nations Now Off People Saying Tend Think Trade Want Wins

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There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.

~David Autor

Topics: Adjusting Always Automatic Challenge Challenges Change Clearly Creates Easy Economic Feasible Labor Market Mobility Most New Our Pace Polarized Poses Rapid Real Rising Seen Technological Threat Work

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Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?

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Topics: Increasingly Jobs Labor Machines Make Many Obsolete Our Redundant Skills Still Us Why Work

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The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.

~David Autor

Topics: Abundance Attain Available Average Choose Could Eliminated Hard Harvest Just Living Material Most Never People Perceived Scarcity Standard Technological Them Third Time Wanting Weeks Willing Work Work Hard Worker Working Year

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China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.

~David Autor

Topics: Caused China Country Employment Event Historical Kind Largest Manufacturing Really Rise Substantial Wholesale World

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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

~David Autor

Topics: Again Amount Cheaper Decades Factory Furniture Going Job Lose Make Me Toys Wal-Mart Where Whole Worked

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A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.

~David Autor

Topics: Adaptability Also Answering Construction Directions Flexibility Giving Involves Lot Motor Orders People Questions Requires Restaurants Say Taking Terms Visual Work

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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.

~David Autor

Topics: Adult Focus Gives Go Identity Labour Lives Market Often Other Participating People Purpose Responsibilities Set Sort Start Structures Things Us Work Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: Unknown

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