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Benzell et al. attribute to Autor (2015), whom they describe as a long-run skeptic of Luddism, the argument that the automobile displaced equestrian drivers but created many new human occupations.

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Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement → attributes to → Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

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Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacementattributes to ↓Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

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Date: 2018-10 · revision Records dated 2018 →
Kind of attribution: Summarises an argument or finding of the work

Scope and limitsThe citing text's summary of the argument; “He” refers to Autor (2015) in the preceding sentence. Not evidence that the citing authors agree or that their model derives from Autor (2015). The wording is attested only from the October 2018 revision: a cross-family check (2026-10-30) found it in the copy labelled “Revised October 2018” (captured 11 May 2019) and not in the February 2015 copy.

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Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement

NBER Working Paper 20941 · 2015-02

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“He points out that the automobile displaced equestrian drivers but introduced myriad occupations for humans in the auto and other industries.”

Location in source PDF p. 7, literature discussion

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Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo LaGarda; Jeffrey D. Sachs
Version: Full text (revised version). Current copy retrieved directly on 2026-10-09; no archive capture (Wayback unreachable), so earlier bytes are not authenticated. SHA-256 362172ebc8a725bfe76675a836f565736278dc12c86db96b5e67944451b0ae60. The February 2015 wording was not retrieved; the retrieved PDF is the October 2018 revision. Benzell, S. G., Kotlikoff, L. J., LaGarda, G., & Sachs, J. D. (2015). Robots are us: Some economics of human replacement (NBER Working Paper No. 20941; February 2015 version). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w20941
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Accessed: 2026-10-09
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Seth G. Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo LaGarda, Jeffrey D. Sachs, “Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement”, NBER Working Paper 20941, 2015-02.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, key papers (research/key-papers). The quotation (21 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (research/key-papers/verification.json). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and line-break hyphens, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item B010) found the attribution at its locator and in the citing text’s reference entry; it qualified its answer, and the adjudication of 2026-10-31 was applied at admission. No human editorial review.

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Date. Date of the revision read: NBER Working Paper 20941, revised October 2018. The passage is absent from the February 2015 copy the cross-family check inspected, so the record is not dated by the first issue.

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