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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 1d

Thought-provoking!

"Not Flourishing" by David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson.

www.nber.org/papers/w34321

Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 4d

Highly relevant!

"Nature and Biodiversity Loss: A Research Agenda for Financial Economics" by Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Olivier Wang.

www.nber.org/papers/w34286

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, super interesting!

The Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025 NBER.

For instance, the paper "Genius on Demand: The Value of Transformative Artificial Intelligence" by Ajay K. Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, and Joshua S. Gans.

www.nber.org/conferences/...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 7d

Highly recommended!

"Taxation and the Global Allocation of Intangibles" by Jesse LaBelle, Fernando M. Martin, and Ana Maria Santacreu

doi.org/10.20955/wp....

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 9d

This looks like a must-read!

"Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000" by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 11d

Food for thought!

"Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation" by Christopher Cotton, Brent R. Hickman, John A. List, Joseph Price, and Sutanuka Roy.

www.nber.org/papers/w34274

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 12d

Highly relevant!

"Why Is Manufacturing Productivity Growth So Low?" by Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Nicole Kimmel, and Chad Syverson.

www.nber.org/papers/w34264

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 13d

Super interesting!

Beyond productivity: The pursuit of purpose in the age of AI (Brookings)

Monday, September 29, 2025, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT

connect.brookings.edu/register-to-...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 14d

Food for thought!

"Generative AI: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity" by Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 15d

Highly relevant!

"Climate risks to global supply chains" by Madalena Barata da Rocha, Heather Grabbe, and Niclas Poitiers.

www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 16d

Super interesting!

"Outside Job Opportunities and the Gender Gap in Pay" by Peter Fredriksson, Dogan Gülümser, and Lena Hensvik.

www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 16d

Highly interesting (and probably controversial)!

"SuperEurope: The Unexpected Hero of the 21st Century" by Arturo Bris.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKGLL7YQ

By the way, we have made similar arguments in the past. For example, here:

open.substack.com/pub/incprodm...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 19d

This looks like a must-read!

The Global Forum on Productivity at 10: Past and Future Perspectives on Reviving Productivity Growth

"The widespread slowdown in productivity growth since the early 21st century represents one of the most pressing challenges"

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of interesting details in the "Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads" by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

www.wipo.int/publications...

Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads

The Global Innovation Index 2025 reveals innovation systems at a crossroads, where breakthrough technologies in AI and quantum computing advance rapidly while investment growth slows and collaborative...

www.wipo.int

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 21d

We are looking forward to this webinar!

Webinar: Opportunities and challenges of better interactions between military and civilian R&D

Dominique Foray (Professor EPFL, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation)

⏲️ Sep 29, 12.00 CEST

REGISTRATION: forms.office.com/r/eNP82ZTuwV

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 21d

Highly relevant!

"Work in the Digital Era: How Technology is Transforming Work and Occupations" by E. Fernández-Macías, I. González Vázquez, S. Torrejón Pérez, and L. Nurski.

publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 22d

Super interesting!

"Automation-Induced Innovation Shift" by Lin William Cong, Yao Lu, Hanqing Shi, and Wu Zhu.

www.nber.org/papers/w34240

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 23d

Food for thought!

"Did R&D Misallocation Contribute to Slower Growth?" by Nils H. Lehr.

"This paper presents evidence that frictions, and their impact on the allocation of R&D resources, contributed to the recent decline in U.S. productivity growth."

www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25d

Wow, super interesting!

"Global Working Hours" by Amory Gethin and Emmanuel Saez.

www.nber.org/papers/w34217

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25d

Super interesting!

"Artificial intelligence adoption and workplace training" by Samuel Muehlemann.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25d

Food for thought!

"Job Mismatch and Early Career Success" by Julie Berry Cullen, Gordon B. Dahl, and Richard De Thorpe.

www.nber.org/papers/w34215

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 26d

Highly relevant!

"The Disconnected Youth Problem"

Macaluso "shares what she has learned about young people who are not employed, in school, or undergoing training, and what potential interventions could bring these disconnected youth into the workforce."

www.richmondfed.org/podcasts/spe...

The Disconnected Youth Problem

Claudia Macaluso shares what she has learned about young people who are not employed, in school, or undergoing training, and what potential interventions could bring these disconnected youth into the ...

www.richmondfed.org

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 27d

Food for thought!

"Regulating under uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI" by Florence G'sell.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/regu...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very valuable!

"AI Agents for Economic Research" by Anton Korinek.

"The objective of this paper is to demystify AI agents - autonomous LLM-based systems that plan, use tools, and execute multistep research tasks - and to provide hands-on instructions for economists..."

www.nber.org/papers/w34202

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Super interesting!

"Are Businesses Scaling Back Hiring Due to AI?" by Jaison R. Abel, Richard Deitz, Natalia Emanuel, Ben Hyman, and Nick Montalbano.

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/09/are-...

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