Techonology displaces and reinstates labor / Ambiguous labor market impact of automating prediction / Manufacturing in the late nineteenth century: The hand and machine labor study / The rise of robots in China / Ten years after the financial crisis: What have we learned from the renaissance in fiscal research? / Rising government debt: Causes and solutions for a decades-old trend / Effects of austerity: Expenditure and tax-based approaches / The declining labor market prospects of less-educated men / When labor’s lost: Health, family, life incarceration, and education in a time of declining economic opportunity of low-skilled men / The tenuous attachments of working-class men / Retrospectives: Ricardo on machinery / Recommendations for further reading.