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6 Oct 2021 Conversations with Tyler Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
“It seems as if we know a lot about the demand for social skills; we know a lot less about the supply of social skills. It may be that when we think about the skills of the past, we’re thinking about, first, manual skills, then motor skills and mental skills.”
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- Claudia Goldin
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- 6 Oct 2021
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…Most skills. They suspect it may be due to automation or artificial intelligence. I read the work of David Deming, in which the set of skills that are in enormously great demand are a set of social skills. The question is how do you up social skills? It seems as if we know a lot about the demand for social skills; we know a lot less about the supply of social skills. It may be that when we think about the skills of the past, we’re thinking about, first, manual skills, then motor skills and mental skills. Now we’re moving into the range of social skills. Our last segment on economic history. Why wasn’t there a Coasian solution to the Civil War, namely just buying out the slaveholders? This is going back to your work from, what, 1977?…
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