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2022

December 15, 2022
Podcast: The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Economics
Episode with Professor Freeman: will be posted February 2023
Host: Professor Orley Ashenfelter 

November 5, 2022
Equal Sharing Motivates Lower-Ability Workers in Team Production," Richard Freeman, Xiaofei Pan, Xiaolan Yang, Maoliang Ye, VoxEU-CEPR. 

Sept 20, 2022
Book LaunchOvertime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer (Editors Lisa F. Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale)
Podcast: Co-editor Beth Truesdale joined the conversation on the "unretirement" trend in this NPR podcast on The Takeaway

2021 

Electric Robotaxis May Not be the Climate Solution We Were Led to Believe.  The Verge, Andrew J. Hawkins@andyjayhawk  Aug 30, 2021, 11:18am EDT

Robocabs Could Make Climate Change Worse, Say Researchers at Harvard, MIT:  A new study shows that electric, autonomous cabs could increase greenhouse gas emissions -- not reduce them. Harvard Law Today, Aug 24, 2021

2020 

July 27, 2020. 
Hidden Brain: A Conversation About Life's Unseen Patterns 
Podcast with Shankar Vedantam
​​​​Creativity And Diversity: How Exposure To Different People Affects Our Thinking
- "Harvard economics professor Richard Freeman has an interesting study on diversity in science. He found that published scientific research receives greater attention if the authors are ethnically diverse."

September 15, 2020 
Money Geek: Deb Gorden 
COVID-19 EMPLOYMENT STUDY:  "The Cost of American Job Recovery
INTERVIEW: with Experts Claudia Sahm (Federal Reserve Board), Jesse Rothstein (UC Berkeley, California Policy Lab), Hilary Hoynes (UC Berkeley, Opportunity Lab), Richard B. Freeman, and Terri Gerstein (Director, State and Local Enforcement Program) 

2018

July 13, 2018
RADIO SHOW: This Morning with Alex Jensen, tbs eFM 101.3 MHz, Seoul
INTERVIEW: 0614 News Foxus 1 with Richard Freeman: Minimum Wage and Job Policy

2017

July 31, 2017
HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
INTERVIEW:  Robots, Jobs and Inequality
In this short interview, Prof Richard Freeman of Harvard University warns that robotization has already had an impact on jobs and wages and may worsen inequality. The solution, he proposes, is ensuring that workers will share ownership of robots.

June 14, 2017
HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
LECTURE:  China's Patent Explosion
In the 2000s China moved from modest contributor to global patents to become the number one patent producing country in the world. What is quality of Chinese patents compared to those of US/other countries? To what extent is China’s patent growth frontier inventions vs catch-up of products new to China but not the world? What is the relation of patents with economic outcomes? This talk will answer these questions with statistical and case evidence.

First Quarter 2017
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Econ Focus
"Robots for the Long Haul"  article by David Price

April 19, 2017 (air date)
NPR Marketplace
Robot-Proof Jobs 3: Rewiring the Future - Series on automation and the economy
PODCAST:  see segment ~17 minute mark
HOSTS: David Brancaccio and Katie Long

2016

October 1, 2016
The Economist, A lapse in concentration: A dearth of competition among firms helps explain wage inequality and a host of other ills"  Reference to Barth, Bryson, Davis Freeman 2016 JOLE paper, "Its Where You Work".

December 13, 2016
Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction
hbr.org

December 5, 2016
Rice University, DeLange Conference on Humans, Machines & The Future of Work
Press: "Will robots take all our jobs someday?"  The Star, Tech News, 12/9/2016

2016
America's Course on Poverty - Open-Source On-Line Educational Course
Module 1: How Much Inequality Is too Much?
Stanford University

2016
From the Land of Gandhi - Film
Interviewed in the film regarding the history of immigration.
Link to Film - 50 minutes
Facebook Link   /  Vimeo Link
From the Land of Gandhi is a 21st century story of skilled immigrants who wait for years, at the prime of their lives, for freedom in the US with their careers, choices and dreams inadvertently linked to their country of birth.

Economic Research Forum - Blog

2015

August 13, 2015
NBER Interview with David Kestenbaum
Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong?

December 8, 2015
CEDEFOP Interview - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Robots and the Future of Work: Maximising skills for jobs and jobs for skills

January 7, 2008
Stephen Colbert Report
Discussing the purpose of unions and the book American Works