#  Links: Podcasts | online articles | Media 

 



**2022**

December 15, 2022  
**Podcast**: [The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Economics](https://economics.princeton.edu/news/a-new-podcast-records-the-history-of-industrial-relations-and-labor-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](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/equal-sharing-motivates-lower-ability-workers-team-production)," Richard Freeman, Xiaofei Pan, Xiaolan Yang, Maoliang Ye, VoxEU-CEPR.   
  
Sept 20, 2022  
**Book Launch**: [Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/overtime) (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](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/uncovering-facts-behind-unretirement)

**2021**

[Electric Robotaxis May Not be the Climate Solution We Were Led to Believe](https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648218/electric-robotaxi-climate-change-emissions-harvard-study). The Verge, [Andrew J. Hawkins](https://www.theverge.com/authors/andrew-j-hawkins)[@andyjayhawk](https://www.twitter.com/andyjayhawk) Aug 30, 2021, 11:18am EDT

[Robocabs Could Make Climate Change Worse](https://today.law.harvard.edu/robocabs-could-make-climate-change-worse-say-researchers-at-harvard-mit/), 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](https://www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895858974/creativity-and-diversity-how-exposure-to-different-people-affects-our-thinking)  
\- "Harvard economics professor Richard Freeman [has an interesting study ](/publications/collaborating-people-me-ethnic-co-authorship-within-us)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](https://www.moneygeek.com/coronavirus/states-most-jobs-lost-coronavirus/#expert=richard-b-freeman)"   
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](http://www.podbbang.com/ch/10101)

**2017**

**July 31, 2017**  
HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)  
INTERVIEW: [Robots, Jobs and Inequality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDF96R-zBs&feature=youtu.be)  
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDGTj8gfCHk)  
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](https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2017/q1/feature1)" article by David Price

**April 19, 2017 (air date)**  
*NPR Marketplace*  
[Robot-Proof Jobs 3: Rewiring the Future](https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/21/economy/robot-proof-jobs/robot-proof-jobs-3-rewiring-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"](http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21707838-dearth-competition-among-firms-helps-explain-wage-inequality-and-host-other) Reference to Barth, Bryson, Davis Freeman 2016 JOLE paper, "[Its Where You Work](/publications/it%E2%80%99s-where-you-work-increases-earnings-dispersion-across-establishments-and)".  
  
**December 13, 2016**  
[Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction](https://hbr.org/2016/12/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?](http://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2016/12/09/will-robots-take-all-our-jobs-someday/)" The Star, Tech News, 12/9/2016  
  
**2016**  
[America's Course on Poverty](https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:HumanitiesSciences%20PovertyCourse%20ongoing/about) - 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](/%20https://fromthelandofgandhifilm.com/film/)  
[Facebook Link / ](https://www.facebook.com/FTLOGFilm)[Vimeo Link](https://vimeo.com/channels/ftlogfilm)  
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?](http://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we-would-be-working-15-hour-weeks-why-was-he-so-wrong%20)  
  
**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](http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/videos/interview-professor-richard-freeman-robots-and-future-work)  
  
**January 7, 2008**  
Stephen Colbert Report  
[Discussing the purpose of unions and the book American Works](http://www.cc.com/video-clips/v60qiq/the-colbert-report-richard-freeman)