Automation and its Macroeconomic Consequences

Klaus Prettner is Professor of Economics (especially Economic Growth and Distribution) at the University of Hohenheim. He has previously worked as Assistant Professor of Dynamic Macroeconomics at the Vienna University of Technology, as Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics and Development at the University of Göttingen, as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and as a research scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main areas of interest are the economic consequences of automation, the interrelations between economic growth and inequality, and the impact of demographic change on long-run economic growth. He has published his research in journals such as Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Health Economics, Research Policy, Journal of Urban Economics, Health Affairs, Economic Theory, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Klaus Prettner obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 2009 at the University of Vienna and his Habilitation in Mathematical Economics at the Vienna University of Technology in 2014.

David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. In recent years, he has written extensively on primary, secondary, and tertiary education in developing countries and on the links among health status, population dynamics, and economic growth. Dr. Bloom has published over 300 articles, book chapters, and books.Dr. Bloom has previously been a member of the public policy faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University and the economics faculty at Columbia University and Harvard University. He currently serves as a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is a member of the Board of Directors of PSI and of the Board of Trustees of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Bloom also serves as Director of Harvard’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging. In April 2005, Dr. Bloom was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bloom received a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1976 and a PhD in Economics and Demography from Princeton University in 1981.