De week van Went in tweets #184

Geslachtsverandering — Sigmund in Volkskrant pic.twitter.com/TKnnthVesa

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

5 ways GDP gets it totally wrong as a measure of our success — @davidpilling https://t.co/Yi7F4skuri

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

Good-bye, GDP. Hello, six-part balance sheet? — @DianeCoyle1859 https://t.co/VXFDLNNS3G

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

How to fix university economics courses: A syllabus that does not integrate the insights of other disciplines fails students https://t.co/dDgz2YIJwc

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 17, 2018

‘Pluralism is quite the opposite of abandoning attempts at building robust economic knowledge’ — Sheila Dow on @RebuildMacro https://t.co/gq7f24rqe4

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

‘Hoe is dit in godsnaam mogelijk?’ — @DeGroene over private rechtbanken met een digitale rechter, in werkelijkheid een algoritme, in Nederland https://t.co/NNQHNCVDQH

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? Economists propose to treat data as labour (with a ‘data-labour union’) to spread the wealth generated by AI https://t.co/b37d1ZPQnk

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 16, 2018

‘Het is tijd om aan een wettelijk bouwwerk te beginnen dat recht doet aan de waarde van digitale data, en daarmee ook eigendom, zorgvuldige levering, en onbedoeld misbruik te regelen’ — Haroon Sheikh en Arnold Smulders in FD — https://t.co/6HbmLsiqhA pic.twitter.com/11T8Iu5jCi

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 16, 2018

#BorisBridge pic.twitter.com/UVMWTobTid

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 21, 2018

Footage of the first vehicle to arrive in France using the #BorisBridge pic.twitter.com/iYqWFVsnin

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 19, 2018

De ‘vierde technologische revolutie’ en de toekomst van werk — Sheets van mijn Ernst #Hijmanslezing 2018 bij de @OoaNL — https://t.co/7LQv4w7m18 pic.twitter.com/L1jiaPfWFx

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 22, 2018

!!! ‘The biggest weakness of all the studies is that jobs aren’t islands; boundaries change. The story of automation is far more complex and beyond the reach of the models and the data we have at hand’ https://t.co/gV0vVPU6lS

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 23, 2018

Dutiful dirges of Davos: ‘They are loath to pay a living wage, but they will fund a philharmonic orchestra. They will ban unions, but they will organize a workshop on transparency in government’ – Must-read from @BrankoMilan on the annual WEF gathering –https://t.co/8TQ50CG3eu pic.twitter.com/VtaN06RnLX

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 20, 2018

Ik heb ‘De zaak Organon’ nu uit en vind het ‘n prachtboek! Als geschiedenis van Organon. Als bijdrage aan debatten over industriepolitiek en bedrijfsovernames. Als kritiek op dominantie van aandeelhouderswaarde en financialisering. En als mooi kwalitatief onderzoek. Een aanrader! https://t.co/ItxdilZmoD

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs — Guardian longread https://t.co/92mGpuE2AT

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 19, 2018

A memo to big tech: The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google, and what they can do https://t.co/h8bfFKrkOv

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

Tech addiction is a collective-action problem caused by misaligned incentives: It’s time for Apple to build a less addictive iPhone https://t.co/OZcEBdr61b

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 18, 2018

The case for ending Amazon’s dominance: size can be a problem when a company is weak as well as when it is strong https://t.co/bWWgGONGYO

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 19, 2018

Big Tech should hit the reset button: Political pressure on platform companies is growing and they need a better response — @RanaForoohar https://t.co/4KummypAIf

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 22, 2018

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