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SUMMARY:The Politics of New Economic Technologies -  Hannah Kuchler and Ma
 thew Lawrence
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DESCRIPTION:Technology is radically changing our economic lives. Projectio
 ns anticipate technological change to have fundamental effects on the ways
  and rates that we work\, with two thirds of current UK jobs at risk of au
 tomation by 2030 (Lawrence 2016). These shifts augment the importance of t
 he distribution of capital\, and the political arrangements which emerge w
 ith and through these new economic technologies will be central to their o
 utcomes.\n\nVisions are emerging of how to manage these shifts\, often foc
 using on questions of ownership and distribution of economic technologies.
  Visionaries of Silicon Valley are crafting economic arrangements around t
 he world in their own image\, from labour in the ‘gig’ economy to the 
 emergence of AI. While some offer optimistic visions for basic income sati
 sfying the economic necessities of all in an automated economy (e.g. Mason
  2015\; Srnicek and Williams 2016)\, others anticipate inequality is likel
 y to intensify over this period\, with the income of high-income household
 s in the UK predicted to rise at 11 times the rate of low income household
 s (Lawrence 2016). This panel will discuss the various political arrangeme
 nts that could and should take form under these rapid economic shifts.\n\n
  \n\nHannah Kuchler is the San Francisco correspondent for the Financial T
 imes. She reports from Silicon Valley\, writing about powerful tech compan
 ies\, emerging startups and the culture of the tech industry. She speciali
 ses in covering social media and cyber security.\n\nMathew Lawrence is a S
 enior Research Fellow at the think tank IPPR. He is based in the Economy t
 eam\, leading on the intersection between economic and technological chang
 e\, political economy\, and workplace democracy. He has authored reports w
 hich have received wide media coverage and is editor of IPPR Progressive R
 eview. He holds a Dual MA:MSc in World History with Distinction from Colum
 bia University and the LSE.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building
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