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economics of work
Join us as we talk to the deepest thinkers in economics to understand how labor markets function, how work is changing, and why.Join Ben Zweig as he sits down with leading economists, researchers, and thinkers to explore the ideas that define how we work, why we work, and what the future of work will look like.
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Episodes
Conversations with leading economists, researchers, and business thinkers, every Thursday.
The New Geography of Work
Five years after the pandemic reshaped where and how we work, where have we actually landed? In this episode, Ben sits down with Nick Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford and the world's leading researcher on remote and hybrid work.
Moral Economics and Repugnant Transactions
What makes a transaction repugnant? And why does society allow some controversial markets to flourish while banning others that seem far less harmful?
How Technology Affects Work
In this episode, Ben sits down with David Autor, professor of economics at MIT, to explore how technology transforms work at every level from individual tasks to entire industries.
Hosted by Ben Zweig
Ben Zweig is a labor economist and the CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company. A passionate advocate for understanding the evolving nature of work, Ben also teaches The Future of Work at NYU Stern. Before founding Revelio Labs, he was a Managing Data Scientist at IBM’s Chief Analytics Office and a Quantitative Strategist at an emerging markets hedge fund. He holds a PhD in Economics from the CUNY Graduate Center, and he is the author of Job Architecture: Building a Language for Workforce Intelligence.
“Ever since taking my first economics class 20 years ago, I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible about how and why we do what we do. For me, the best way to do that is to listen to the people who have thought the most deeply about it.”