Globotics and Telemigration: This time, globalisation is different

If you have ever been gripped with the desire to make a macroeconomist chuckle, quote the title of this piece while telling them of your latest forecast. Many of the biggest follies in forecasting have been founded on the belief that the usual rules have been repealed—that the normal constraint on asset values, growth rates, or whatever projection don’t apply this time. If you believe in the words of Erasmus, however, a certain degree of folly must be borne for a happy life. It is thus with eyes wide open that I claim that “this time is different” when it comes to the future of work.

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Richard Baldwin

Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the policy portal VoxEU.org. He regularly advises governments and international organisations on globalisation and trade policy issues.

In 1990-91 he served as a Senior Staff Economist for President George Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, having completed his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman (with whom he has published a half dozen articles).

His latest book, The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work, was published in February 2019.