https://radicaloptimist.org/en/tags/economics/Recent content in Economics on Radical OptimistHugoenSat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-the-efficiency-trap/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-the-efficiency-trap/<p><em>This is the second piece in a series. The first, <a href="https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-marx-was-right/">Marx Was Right About AI</a>, examined the leverage knowledge workers hold over AI deployment — and why mission-driven organizations will capture the productivity gains that extractive ones cannot. This piece operates at a different scale: not the firm, but the monetary system. Not the leverage window, but what comes after it closes. The third piece, <a href="https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-the-robustness-imperative/">The Robustness Imperative</a>, asks what kind of AI infrastructure serves workers, organizations, and states — rather than extracting from them.</em></p>