Why Workers Don’t Need to Fear Technological Change

In economics, nobody likes it but everybody has to live with it: uncertainty. It makes business decisions difficult and wreaks havoc in economic models. This is why mainstream economics oftentimes ignores it and assumes we have complete certainty in economic planning. In real life, this assumption never pans out, which is part of the reason mainstream economics is notoriously bad at predicting financial crises.
Why Workers Don’t Need to Fear Technological Change
Robots manufacture a carbon chassis of a new BMW i3 electric car on the assembly line at the BMW factory on September 18, 2013 in Leipzig, Germany. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images
Valentin Schmid
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In economics, nobody likes it but everybody has to live with it: uncertainty. It makes business decisions difficult and wreaks havoc on economic models. This is why mainstream economics oftentimes ignores it and assumes we have complete certainty in economic planning.

In real life, this assumption never pans out, which is part of the reason mainstream economics is notoriously bad at predicting financial crises.

Not so for Horace “Woody” Brock. A mathematical economist by training, he embraced Economics of Uncertainty and founded his consulting firm Strategic Economic Decisions after doing extensive research at Stanford University.

His most recent book is titled “American Gridlock,” where he proposes common sense solutions to economic crises.

The distribution of consumption is morally the only thing that matters.
Valentin Schmid
Valentin Schmid
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Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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