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Work is changing, and the forces shaping it are endlessly fascinating. In The Economics of Work , Ben Zweig sits down with leading economists, researchers, and thinkers to explore the ideas that define how we work, why we work, and what the future of work could look like. Each conversation dives deep into the literature, economic theory, and the philosophical questions that underlie the world of labor.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWork is changing, and the forces shaping it are endlessly fascinating. In The Economics of Work, Ben Zweig sits down with leading economists, researchers, and thinkers to explore the ideas that define how we work, why we work, and what the future of work could look like.
Recent episodes include "Natalia Emanuel - What We Lose When We Stop Working in the Same Room" (14 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Ernie Tedeschi - What the Productivity Numbers Say About AI" (7 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "Mike Spence - What a Nobel Laureate Thinks AI Does to Education" (30 September 2026, 60 minutes).
The Economics of Work with Ben Zweig publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes.
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Episode #23
When two people have a conversation in person, their brains synchronize. Over Zoom, they lose 90% of that neural synchrony. That's the starting point for understanding what remote work has actually cost us. Topics...
Episode #22
Productivity growth in the US has jumped by about a percentage point since 2023. That's a big deal. Whether AI is the cause, or just the context, is a much harder question to answer than most commentary assumes. Topics...
Episode #21
The theory of labor market signaling changed how economists think about education, hiring, and information. Fifty years later, AI is rewriting the conditions that made the theory work. In this episode, Ben sits down...
Episode #20
The labor share of income has dropped from roughly two thirds to below sixty percent since the early 1980s. The US looks like an outlier even among rich countries. In this episode, Ben sits down with Anna Stansbury, MIT...
Episode #19
The unspoken employment contract, characterized by stable jobs, career ladders, wages that rose with productivity, didn't dissolve overnight. Firms chipped away at it deliberately, and the result is a labor market...
Episode #16
The economy is changing faster than our ability to track it. And the data sources we rely on most, like surveys, official statistics, and government indices, were designed for a world that no longer exists. In this...
Episode #15
The standard debate about AI and jobs is a rich-country debate. But for billions of people in low- and middle-income countries, the stakes and the story look completely different. In this episode, Ben sits down with...
Episode #14
The jobs most protected from AI aren't necessarily the most credentialed ones. They're the ones where tasks are so tightly bundled together that pulling one thread unravels the whole thing. In this episode, Ben sits...
Episode #13
What does it look like to do economics from inside the AI revolution with access to data nobody else has, and questions nobody has figured out how to answer yet? In this episode, Ben sits down with Ronnie Chatterji...
Episode #12
The story of foreign aid is usually told as a story of insufficient resources. Bill Easterly thinks that misses the point. In this episode, Ben sits down with Bill Easterly, NYU economist and author of four books on...
Episode #11
The dominant framework for measuring AI's impact on jobs may be asking the wrong question entirely. In this episode, Ben sits down with Isabella Loaiza, economist and researcher at MIT, to challenge some of the most...
Episode #9
The debate about immigration is usually framed around politics and labor markets. But the deeper story includes mobility. Who gets ahead, how, and why where they start determines so much about where you end up. In this...
Episode #8
Finance has net present value. Operations has bottleneck theory. What does HR have? In this episode, Ben sits down with John Boudreau, professor emeritus at USC and one of the most influential thinkers in the history of...
Episode #7
Keynes predicted we'd be working 15-hour weeks by now. So what went wrong? Does it even matter? In this episode, Ben sits down with Dan Hamermesh, one of the most prolific and wide-ranging labor economists of the past...
Episode #6
What does it take to connect the worlds of academia, government, and industry around workforce development? The answer requires someone fluent in all three. In this episode, Ben sits down with Rachel Lipson, researcher...
Episode #5
<p>What actually happens to a job when AI touches it? The answer depends on something most frameworks aren't designed to measure.</p><p>In this episode, Ben sits down with Daniel Rock, assistant professor at Penn and...
Episode #4
<p>Most conversations about the future of work focus on technology. This one focuses on people.</p><p>In this episode, Ben sits down with Alexis Fink, organizational psychologist and president of SIOP — the Society for...
Episode #3
<p>Five years after the pandemic reshaped where and how we work, where have we actually landed?</p><p>In this episode, Ben sits down with Nick Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford and the world's leading researcher...
Episode #2
<p>What makes a transaction repugnant? And why does society allow some controversial markets to flourish while banning others that seem far less harmful?</p><p>In this episode, Ben sits down with Al Roth, Nobel laureate...
Episode #1
<p>In this episode, Ben sits down with David Autor, professor of economics at MIT, to explore how technology transforms work at every level from individual tasks to entire industries.</p><p>Topics covered:</p>Why...
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