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The author states that the essay begins by identifying the reasons automation has not eliminated a majority of jobs over decades and centuries.

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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation → states its contribution → The author states that the essay begins by identifying the reasons automation has not eliminated a majority of jobs over decades and centuries.

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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automationstates its contribution ↓The author states that the essay begins by identifying the reasons automation has not eliminated a majority of jobs over decades and centuries.

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Date: 2015 · publication Records dated 2015 →

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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

Journal of Economic Perspectives 29(3), Summer 2015, pp. 3–30 · 2015

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“In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority of jobs over the decades and centuries.”

Location in source publisher page (Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer 2015), abstract

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Authors: David H. Autor
Version: Abstract page only (full-text PDF refused, HTTP 403). Current copy retrieved directly on 2026-10-09; no archive capture (Wayback unreachable), so earlier bytes are not authenticated. SHA-256 faa6a9976b49be8beb09c2cb4b16ea37795a78fa86301a46698515b3a7f79897. Full text not retrieved; only the AEA abstract page. Autor, D. H. (2015). Why are there still so many jobs? The history and future of workplace automation. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3), 3–30. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.29.3.3
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Language: English (en)
Attribution: David H. Autor, “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 29(3), Summer 2015, pp. 3–30, 2015.
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