Laura Tyson, “Intelligent Machines and Displaced Workers.”

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Laura Tyson

Laura Tyson

SUMMARY: Laura Tyson, a former chair of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers, considers responses to technological unemployment, writing, “In the longer term, more radical policies – such as the introduction of a negative income tax or a basic income – must be considered, with the goal of providing a guaranteed minimum standard of living regardless of employment status and market wage.”

Laura Tyson, “Intelligent Machines and Displaced Workers.” Project Syndicate. March 7, 2014.

1 Comment

  1. Eugene Ward
    Eugene Ward on April 15, 2018 at 3:47 pm

    She was interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning. She said that a $10,000 UBI would take up 3/4 of the federal budget. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.