Readings
Regularly updated. Structured around four pillars: distribution; market power; geoeconomics; and information.
Foundational Literature
- Skills, tasks and technologies: Implications for employment and earningsD. Acemoglu & D. Autor, Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4, 2011
- Automation and new tasks: How technology displaces and reinstates laborD. Acemoglu & P. Restrepo, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019
- Platform competition in two-sided marketsJ.-C. Rochet & J. Tirole, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003
- AI-tocracyM. Beraja, J. Kao, C. Yang & N. Yuchtman, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023
- The political economy of AI: Towards democratic control of the means of predictionM. Kasy, INET Oxford Working Paper, 2023
- NBER (eds.) — Essay Collection
- D. Autor, C. Chin, A. Salomons & B. Seegmiller, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
- L. Veldkamp & C. Chung, Journal of Economic Literature, 2024
Distribution
- D. Acemoglu, Economic Policy, 2025
- E. Brynjolfsson, D. Li & L. Raymond, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025
- D. Autor, NBER Working Paper 32140, 2024
- A. Korinek & J. E. Stiglitz, NBER Working Paper 24174, 2019
- D. Acemoglu, D. Autor, J. Hazell & P. Restrepo, Journal of Labor Economics, 2022
- E. J. Rockall, M. M. Tavares & P. Pizzinelli, IMF Working Paper 25/68, 2025
- A. Georgieff, OECD Working Paper, 2024
- E. Ide & D. Talamàs, Journal of Political Economy, 2025
- D. Hémous, M. Olsen, C. Zanella & A. Dechezleprêtre, Journal of Political Economy, 2025
- AER 2025 session — Session page (evidence on Europe)
Power, Concentration, and Control
- A. Korinek & J. Vipra, NBER Working Paper 33139, 2024
- J. S. Gans, NBER Working Paper 32270, 2024
- B. Black, Springer (Law and the Future of Meaningful Work, 2024), 2024
- S. Zuboff, Journal of Information Technology, 2015
- M. Beraja, J. Kao, C. Yang & N. Yuchtman, NBER Working Paper 31676, 2023
- S. Assad, R. Clark, D. Ershov, & L. Xu, Journal of Political Economy, 2024
Geoeconomics
- E. Cerutti et al., IMF Working Paper 25/76, 2025
- C. Clayton, M. Maggiori & J. Schreger, NBER Working Paper 33681, 2025
- H. Roberts et al., International Affairs, 2024
- S. Schmid, D. Lambach, C. Diehl, & Christian Reuter, Geopolitics, 2025
- R. Seamans & M. Raj, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2023
- S. A. Thompson & J. Martinez, Harvard Law Review, 2025
- C. Jones, American Economic Review: Insights, 2024
Information
- D. Acemoglu, A. Makhdoumi, A. Malekian & A. Ozdaglar, American Economic Review: Insights, 2025
- F. Campante, R. Durante, M. Hagemeister & A. Sen, NBER Working Paper 34100, 2025
- S. B. Hobolt, F. Lawall & J. Tilley, American Political Science Review, 2023
- G. F. de Arruda, F. N. Silva, L. F. Costa & S. M. Amaral, iScience, 2024
- R. Cazzamatta & E. Sarısakaloğlu, Journal of Communication (forthcoming), 2025
- E. Calvano, G. Calzolari, V. Denicolò & S. Pastorello, Working paper, 2023
- Q. Mei, J. Xie, J. Walter & D. McDuff, PNAS Nexus, 2024
- J. E. Stiglitz & Màxim Ventura-Bolet, Working Paper, 2025
Econ Research Hub
- A. Korinek, Journal of Economic Literature, 2023
- A. Korinek, NBER Working Paper 34202, 2025
- S. Zheng, A. Trott, S. Srinivasa et al., Science Advances, 2021
- G. Hadfield & P. W. Koh, NBER Handbook on the Economics of Transformative AI, 2025 — arXiv: 2509.01063
- N. Tomasev et al., 2024 — arXiv: 2509.10147v1
- A. Fish, Y. A. Gonczarowski & R. I. Shorrer, 2024 — arXiv: 2404.00806