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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Department of Economics and Faculty of Arts are pleased to present David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, for the annual <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/waterloo-arts-distinguished-lecture-economics">Waterloo
Arts Distinguished Lecture in Economics</a> on Thursday, October 6 at 4pm, Theatre of the Arts, ML.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-history-and-future">Why are there still so many jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Many of the great technological advances of the past two centuries have been designed to reduce human work. Despite vast labour-saving technological advances, the fraction of the adult population that
is working at a job is higher now than it was 125 years ago, and it has risen in almost every decade since at least 1890. Why hasn’t automation wiped out employment? Why are there still so many jobs?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor David Autor is one of the world’s most influential labour economists and has made significant contributions to our understanding of income inequality, automation, education and jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent on behalf of the Department of Economics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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