Outrunning the Machines: Policy in the Age of AI. Creative destruction has always been a feature of technological progress. This time, the transformation is faster and more sweeping than ever before. We see the Red Queen effect unfolding before our eyes: to keep pace with technology, humans must run faster than ever, and policy is their most potent lever.
Growth Diagnostics in Absence of Government Microdata. Has the rise of non-government data reduced the need for official microdata in regional economic analysis? In this post, I share the lessons from a recent experiment that tests how far municipal growth diagnostics can go when government microdata is unavailable.Â