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Books by Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, director of the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford, and one of the most cited scholars in information systems and economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the coauthor of several books, including “Race Against the Machine,” “The Second Machine Age,” and “Machine | Platform | Crowd” (all with Andrew McAfee).

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The Second Machine Age

Erik Brynjolfsson

“The Second Machine Age” by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argues that, much like the Industrial Revolution transformed physical labor, the digitization of everything will irreversibly transform cognitive labor, leading to a new economy and new society. Though optimistic about the potential at hand, Brynjolfsson and McAfee do make a few policy recommendations on how to curb the potential negative effects of the digital revolution.

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