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• ‟ Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market.

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• ‟ A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.

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• ‟ The fact that people are dropping out of the labour force says one of two things: either employers have no use for them, or they have no use for the jobs that are being offered at the wages they can command.

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• ‟ The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

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• ‟ I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

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• ‟ The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment.

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• ‟ There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

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• ‟ Trade may raise GDP. But it does make some people worse off.

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• ‟ Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

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• ‟ We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

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