In 1930, the prominent British economist John Maynard Keynes had warned that we were “being afflicted with a new disease” called technological unemployment.

Today's worry about mass technological unemployment is nothing new and probably won't come to pass in its scariest imaginable form. Yet that's no reason for complacency.

In an article for Bloomberg last month, Noah Smith notes that the hubbub about technological unemployment and falling wages is largely a lot of scary hand-wringing over what is possible rather ...

English economist John Maynard Keynes in a 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, wrote about the onset of “a new disease” which he called technological unemployment, that ...