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Labor supply

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

by Jeff Madrick,

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

Education Is Not the Answer

by Jeff Madrick,

Last spring I sat on a panel convened to discuss the publication of The Occupy Handbook, a collection of essays in which a number of prominent economists addressed issues raised…

Education reform

by Robert B. Reich,

Don't count on business

The myth of high-tech jobs

by Harper’s Staff,

Why U.S. industry is coming home

by Wassily W. Leontief,

Requiem for the laboring man

by Warner Bloomberg,

America’s next twenty years

by Peter Ferdinand Drucker,

II. The promise of automation

False but universal belief in invisible presences

by Rebecca Dame West,

The people at war

by John Dos Passos,

V. New industries make new men

The crisis in man power

by George Ross Leighton,

Editor’s easy chair

by Edward Sandford Martin,

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