Reading List

On this page, I share the most interesting content I have been reading recently:

February 2026:

What Will Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Labor Market and the Economy? – Fed’s Barr (speech), February 2026: The Fed’s Michael Barr examines the productivity, labour market, and inflation effects thus far of AI, and lays out three scenarios for how the development of AI could impact the labour market:

1) Gradual adoption – “Unemployment might rise somewhat in the short term due to skill mismatch, but education and training choices adjust over time, and many workers successfully retrain and retain their jobs or find new ones. With strong productivity growth, the economy can sustain faster output growth and real wages rise.”

2) Rapid growth in AI capabilities and adoption – “… Ushering in a jobless boom… With a vastly more productive economy, but much less demand for labor, society would have to rethink the social safety net to ensure that the gains from unprecedented economic growth are sh…