New research shows industries most exposed to AI are seeing faster output per worker, not mass layoffs. To the extent AI is showing up in the numbers, it's a productivity uplift, not a jobs apocalypse ...

Event Description Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, effectively ending the recount of the 2000 presidential election. In the aftermath, Congress passed the Help America ...

Event Summary On February 2, AEI convened a conference with the Ukrainian Institute of the Future on the future of Ukraine, opportunities for a peaceful end to the conflict with Russia, and the ...

Child and Family Policy, Race and Gender, Society and Culture ...

That the stock market is holding up well now despite the gathering storm clouds for the US and world economies is reminiscent of the stock market’s robust performance in the run-up to the 2020 ...

With a new introduction that addresses the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, Men Without Work, casts a spotlight on the collapse of work for ...

President Trump's long-standing chase for deals with China has pushed the US to avoid hard choices, only to get burned later.

The Belt and Road Initiative has not changed the nature of Chinese construction and investment much, despite rapidly expanding the number of countries.

Requirements intended to promote competition in contracting have made the performance of government worse, not better. Using federal procurement of computer systems as his model, the author shows the ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...