AEA Research Highlights Podcast Transcripts
American Economic Association · 99 episodes with transcripts
A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
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Tech: economists wanted
February 17, 2021
Tyler Smith (0:00)
Hi, everyone. This is Tyler Smith with a quick editor's note. From time to time, we'll be re-releasing some of our old audio interviews as bonus content. Back in 2019, I spoke with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the increasingly central role that economists are playing in tech companies. With this year's job…
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pushing today's technology frontier, and critical to their enterprises are economists who've honed their skills at universities. In the winter issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, economist Susan Athey and Michael Luca outline this growing mutual influence…
Susan Athey (1:21)
You're firing on all intellectual cylinders all the time when you're working on hard problems in a tech firm.
Tyler Smith (1:28)
The AEA spoke with Athey and Luca about the many new opportunities for collaboration between tech companies with large amounts of data and economists looking to experiment in the digital economy.
Thank you guys again for really making the time to talk to me. Yes, you all are one example of this growing trend that you're pointing to in the paper. And the stat that I really like is that you show is that Amazon now hires more economists than the largest econ departments in the US. And so what is behind this…
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