Preface and Acknowledgements1 An Overview2 Robots and their Economic Significance3 The impact of Robotization on Production Processes and its Rudimentary Economic Implications 4 Machine Learning and the Economy5 Robotization, the Economy and the Labour Market: A Look at Theoretical and Empirical...

This article uses some general findings in the medical literature on suicide to suggest how male and female suicide rates in a society can be used to measure the "unfreedom" of women relative to that of men. Our definition of "unfreedom" is similar to that of Amartya Sen and consists of all...

This paper investigates the impact of socio-economic triggers on mental health outcomes, proxied by male and female suicide rates. For that purpose we estimate a fixed effects panel data model of 15 major Indian states over the years 1992–2009. Our results show that urbanization and crimes...

This article shows how horizontal industry integration can arise from transferable asymmetry of technologies and endowments. The Nash bargaining solution suggests that greater technological diversity among coordinating parties yields greater gains from horizontal integration. The framework fits...