The Future Impact of Automation on Workers

by Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin

Book Overview

While the computer revolution has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, it has threatened as many other jobs with obsolescence and has often caused the displacement of workers by computer-based machines. Here, Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin use the input-output approach, a method that has been widely applied in examining structural economic change, to analyze the complex issues surrounding the impact of computer-driven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195036239
• ISBN13: 9780195036237
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.6"