Letter from America
Letter from America: Will AI remake or destroy education?
Daron Acemoglu describes four possible futures for AI in education In the decades to come, late 2022 and early 2023 may be remembered as a
October 11, 2023
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Daron Acemoglu describes four possible futures for AI in education In the decades to come, late 2022 and early 2023 may be remembered as a
Michael Burda on the effects of the Russian invasion on the German economy, 16 months later Re-reading my missive of 2022, I was surprised at
Daron Acemoglu writes about the return of industrial policy in the United States Industrial policy is back. But in a very different form than
Alan Kirman on climate change, inflation, French politics and the cultural heritage of the baguette. Each year recently, I have concluded this letter with the
Sir Partha Dasgupta, RES Past President, answers our questions about biodiversity and his landmark Review. How did you come to write the Review? In April
Alvin Birdi and Caroline Elliott discuss the pivot to teaching online and the Economics Network’s response. In the July 2020 newsletter, we wrote about the
James Banks, Heidi Karjalainen, and Carol Propper consider how the Covid-19 recession will influence future health. At the end of 2020, the UK economy had
Publications have long been one important method of evaluating academic performance. The pros and cons of this, as well as strengths and weaknesses in the
Covid-19 has taught us that, while we are all in the same storm, we are not in the same boat. The pandemic has exposed and
Whether it’s through Thomas Piketty’s latest book, the distributional effects of unconventional monetary policy or even the identification of the major economic problem by the
Woon Wong1 has argued in these pages before that the valuation of the USS’s liabilities and the call for higher payroll contributions are incorrect.2 In
Following the ‘Brexit’ referendum in 2016 a number of public organisations including HM Treasury, the UK Government Economic Service, the Bank of England and the
The SPE’s latest survey (for 2020) of economists’ salaries was published at the end of last year. This is an edited version. The full report,
A recent issue of Oxford Economic Papers used the fiftieth anniversary of the British Hitory of Economic Thought Conference to reflect on the reawakening of
The demands for reform of the tax system is widespread in many countries but in this article James Alston1 argues that the prospects for serious
The 2020 lecture was presented on 14 October via Zoom to an international audience. Professor Richard G Anderson spoke on the topic ‘Central Banking in
