Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

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Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. This episode is

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner in economics,
0:04.8	professor CUNY, and colonist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around
0:10.5	international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.
0:16.4	But he also is an outspoken writer and commentator on the intersection of modern-day politics
0:22.4	and economics, which places him in the middle of the tense, divisive, modern-day political discourse.
0:30.0	If you have clicked dislike on this video and started writing a comment of
0:33.7	derision before listening to the conversation, I humbly ask that you please unsubscribe
0:38.9	from this channel and from this podcast. Not because you're conservative,
0:43.1	a libertarian, a liberal, a socialist, and anarchist, but because you're not open to new ideas,
0:48.6	at least in this case, especially at its most difficult, from people with whom you largely disagree.
0:55.9	I do my best to stay away from politics of the day, because political discourse is filled
1:01.2	with a degree of emotion and self-assured certainty that to me is not conducive to exploring questions
1:08.4	that nobody knows the definitive right answer to. The role of government, the impact of automation,
1:15.5	the regulation of tech, the medical system, guns, war, trade, foreign policy, are not easy topics,
1:23.1	and have no clear answers, despite the certainty of the so-called experts, the pundits,
1:29.0	the trolls, the media personalities, and the conspiracy theorists. Please listen,
1:35.5	empathize, and allow yourself to explore ideas with curiosity and without judgment and without
1:42.3	derision. I will speak with many more economists and political thinkers, trying to stay away from
1:47.9	the political battles of the day and instead look at the long arc of history and lessons it reveals.
1:54.7	In this, I appreciate your patience and support. This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
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