No Rage Against the Machines

The threat of automation does not change policy preferences, Baobao Zhang finds in a new paper. The paper presents three experimental studies that investigate how this profound economic change could affect mass politics.

“My research finds that raising awareness about workplace automation did not decrease opposition to globalization or increase support for policies that will prepare workers for future technological disruptions,” Zhang writes.

Read the paper on SSRN and read about the work from Axios