Thursday, 30 May 2019

Leisure-enhancing technological change

a column by Łukasz Rachel for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

How we spend our time is changing rapidly.

This column argues that an important driver is leisure-enhancing innovation, aimed at capturing our time, attention, and data.

Leisure-enhancing technologies can help account for both the rise in leisure hours and the decline in productivity observed across the industrialised world. Their nature carries important implications for the long-run viability of the platforms’ business models, for measurement of economic activity, and for welfare.

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