BOOK REVIEW: CONTEMPORARY LABOR MARKET

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Book Review: The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market

A mong the many famous maxims that have come down to us from the work of Adam Smith is: “The division of labor is determined by the extent of the market.” This statement captures an evolution frequently observed in the nature of businesses and jobs as economies and markets grow. In a small market, particularly in a preindustrial economy, goods were produced and sold in small shops. All stages o...

Looking Inside the Labor Market : A Review

When unemployed workers are available, why don’t firms cut wages until the excess supply is eliminated, as would happen in the ideal markets depicted by conventional economic theory? This question has been central to the great macroeconomic debates that arose from the Keynesian Revolution. Keynesian economists, from Modigliani (1944) through Fischer (1977) and the various authors represented in...

Book Review: Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology

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