David Autor on the Scars That Money Can’t Heal
Published: March 31, 2026
Duration: 54:48
Yascha Mounk and David Autor discuss how policy failures made trade disruption worse—and why we're still making the same mistakes.
David Autor is the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Autor discuss whether the economic pessimism of the 2010s was justified, what lessons we failed to learn from the China trade shock, and how artificial intelligence will reshape the American job mark...