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JULIAN D. A. JACOBS
Publications

A Recession Is Underway for the Many but Not for the Few
Jacobin

Building AI cities: How to spread the benefits of an emerging technology across more of America
The Brookings Institution

Digital Shocks and Political Polarization
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2024

The case for promoting the geographic and social diffusion of AI development
The Brookings Institution

Does automation increase support for the far right?
The Brookings Institution

How Generative AI is Changing the Global South’s IT Services Sector
Center for Data Innovation

Could artificial intelligence really boost labour productivity?
OMFIF

National approaches to AI safety diverge in focus
OMFIF

Will growth in regional payment systems spur de-dollarisation?
OMFIF

Growing Evidence Shows Importance of AI for Healthcare
ITIF

Risks around AI and algorithmic convergence are causing ‘regulatory gaps’
OMFIF

European Union acts on artificial intelligence safety
OMFIF

Evidence Shows Productivity Benefits of AI
Center for Data Innovation

How the global South may pay the cost of AI development
OMFIF

Getting AI policy in the financial sector right
OMFIF
2023

New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs
The Brookings Institution

Building AI cities: How to spread the benefits of an emerging technology across more of America
The Brookings Institution

The Arguments Against Student Debt Forgiveness Are All Bunk
Jacobin

A Recession Is Underway for the Many but Not for the Few
Jacobin

Global financial system underprepared to deal with cyberattacks
OMFIF

Benefits and risks of AI are finally being taken seriously
OMFIF

Digitalisation is rapidly changing US labour market dynamics
OMFIF

How central banks are already deploying artificial intelligence
OMFIF

Friendshoring gaining traction in central bank reserves
OMFIF

Artificial intelligence: promises and risks to the macroeconomy
OMFIF

Philadelphia Fed optimistic about US economic resilience
OMFIF

The macroeconomics of artificial intelligence
OMFIF

Look beyond labour market figures to understand US economic health
OMFIF

Silicon Valley Bank and the double-edged sword of digital efficiency
OMFIF

Markets exploring alternative currencies despite dollar dominance
OMFIF

Should reducing inequality be a central bank mandate?
OMFIF
2022

An unequal embrace of digitalization may contribute to recession risk
The Brookings Institution

Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It’s Costing Them Working-Class Voters
Jacobin

Despite crypto crash, financial institutions are cautiously wading into digital assets
OMFIF

Financial institutions assessing how best to improve data infrastructure
OMFIF

Biden’s student debt plan flawed but the right move
OMFIF

Predictions of K wave plunge excessive, but theory teaches important lessons
OMFIF

Recession debate misses the point
OMFIF

Is the US already in a recession?
OMFIF

Cracking down on the gamification of finance
OMFIF

What are central bank reserves for?
OMFIF

Fed presidents cautiously optimistic for a soft landing
OMFIF

Inflation blame game
OMFIF

Corporate US making consumers pay for inflation
OMFIF

Regulators racing to keep up with digital IDs
OMFIF

Biden administration right to limit stock buybacks
OMFIF

Shift towards isolationism poor solution to effects of war
OMFIF

Inverted yield curve does not prove US recession imminent
OMFIF

Why the labour market won’t fuel US inflation
OMFIF

US employment polarisation tempers worker power and inflation
OMFIF
