Technology and the Economy of the Future 8 pptx

... Smoothing the Business Cycle and Reducing Economic Risk 179 The Market Economy of the Future 180 An International View 183 Transitioning to the New Model 185 Keynesian Grandchildren 189 Transition ... Amazon Copyright©2009byMartinR.Ford  AllRightsReserved, including the right of reproduction inwholeorinpartinanyform.  Publishedin the UnitedStat...

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... are growingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightest lightsin the tunnelfinallyfeel the impact and alsobeginto losetheirlight. The owners of the businessesin the tunnel areseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... mayhaveactuallyin- creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices. Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealth of th...

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... more popular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen- tage of the three and ahalfmillioncashiersin the U.S.no longerhavejobs?Whatadditionaleducation and training canweoffertheseworkers? And whatjobswoulditpre- parethemfor? And what is the impact of thatpotential unemploy- mentonmarketdemandforgoods and services?Cashiers aregenerallynothighly...

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... food—all of these and countless thousands of otherstructures and chemicalsthatcomprise ourbodies and make usfunctionareproteins. And they areallconstructedthroughnanotechnology. Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwill begin ... collating and faxing in- formation. The intellectualportion of the job—eitherap- provingordenying the loan—isprobably...

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... access to capital, small plots withpoor economy of scale,trade barriers, and oftenoutrightexploitationat the hands of governments and corrupt officials. Manufacturing in China is ... Amazon Inthisbook,wewon’tagainstrayintothismorespe- culativearena(exceptin the lastsections of the Appendix). The ideaspresentedinthisbookdonotdependon the oc- curre...

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... to decline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverage workers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis- tribution of incomesin the UnitedStates and thenelimi- nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincome of the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of consumers) ... to lookinalittlemoredepthatsome of the mostwidelyheld conventi...

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... elimi- nates the jobsthatprovideincometoconsumers. The es- sentialideaisthatweshouldimposesomecombination of aconsumptiontax and/ oraspecialdirecttaxonbusiness thatcaptures the incomewhich,inanon-automatedecon- omy,wouldbepaidoutinwages.Overtime,as the wages paidtoaverageworkersdecrease(asapercentage of reve- nue),thesetaxeswouldbegraduallyi...

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... have strongeducations and training.Thesepeoplearebeneficia- ries of the informationage.On the toxicwastelandside of the fence, are relatively unskilled workers. These people THE LIGHTS IN THE ... dramatically negative.In the UnitedStates,twothirds of workers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.While effortstoimproveeducation and trainingarel...

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... acentrallyplanned economy,  and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern- ments and a“dictatorship of the proletariat.”In the wake of the collapse of communism, these ideas ... Amazon  49 Blinder,AlanS.,“IsGovernmenttooPolitical?”ForeignAffairs,No- vember/December1997.Web: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19971101faessay 381 5/alan-s- blinder/is-gover...

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... has quicklyattracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and mayresultinnewregulation. Astheseexamplesshow,wecanexpectthat the rate of change and the volatility of nearlyeverythingaroundus will ... securities werethensoldtobanks and financialinstitutionsallover the world,with the understandingthattheywereverylow riskinvestments. When...

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