Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2025-09-17
Books mentioned on Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)
A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done?
Stephen Dubner discussed The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and others and The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Second Machine Age
The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is a prominent non-fiction book that explores the exponential power of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and how the computer revolution is fundamentally reshaping modern economics and society.
Discussed“In a book he co-authored with Andrew McAfee, Binolson calls this technological disruption the second machine age.”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J.
Discussed“Here's Robert Gordon, author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth.”
Where to get it
