Media

General media and business media

• NPR Planet Money: 5 Papers from the Super Bowl of Economics (February 2026)
• Business NC: Dialing Back Federal Funding Strikes the Triangle's Acclaimed Research Complex (August 2025)
• Forbes: Which Universities Mint the Most PhDs in Key Technology Areas? (July 2025)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Wrecking of American Research (July 2025)
• WorkingNation: Will AI Take Your Job? How Tech Disruption Affects Work (June 2025)
• STAT News: Universities Begin Search for Indirect-Cost Fix That Might Assuage Trump Administration (April 2025)
• New York Times: Trump's Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (March 2025)
• Bloomberg: The Brutal Economics of Reaching Net Zero (September 2024)
• Entrepreneur: Small, Local Businesses Have This One Competitive Advantage (March 2024)
• The Economist: A Short History of Tractors in English (December 2023)
• New York Times: The Latest Thinking on Biden's Biggest Economic Idea (September 2023)
• NPR Marketplace: AI Lessons from the Telephone Operators of the 1920s (August 2023)
• Vox: Telephone Operation Was a Good Career for Women. Then It Got Automated. (July 2023)
• The Economist: Your Job Is Probably Safe from Artificial Intelligence (May 2023)
• The Atlantic: Why the Age of American Progress Ended (December 2022)
• NPR Here & Now: Has the Pandemic Ushered In a New Era of Innovation? (June 2021)
• The Atlantic: World War II's Lesson for After the Pandemic (June 2021)
• HBR France: La compétition est-elle un frein ou un moteur pour la créativité? (February 2021)
• TechRepublic: AI Automation Promises to Have a Big, and Not Always Positive, Impact (November 2020)
• Axios: The Long-Term Gains of Big Science (June 2020)
• Freelancer: 6 Reasons Your Startup Should Welcome Competition (December 2019)
• Livemint: SnapFact: How the Goldilocks Concept Applies to Creativity (November 2018)
• Finweek: How to Incentivise Creativity (October 2018)
• Inc.: 6 Ways to Create a Competitive Work Culture That's Team First (November 2017)
• New York Times: For Workplace Creativity, Find the Right Dose of Competition (May 2016)

Think tanks and industry organizations

• Statecraft: How to Save Science Funding (December 2025)
• Just Security: The Trump Administration's Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding (July 2025)
• ITIF: Reducing the Indirect Cost Recovery Rate at NIH Could Result in a Decline in University Research Funding (June 2025)
• World Economic Forum: Chief Economists Outlook (May 2025)
• Economic Innovation Group: AI and Jobs: What Do We Really Know? (May 2025)
• Brookings: Breaking the AI Mirror (April 2025)
• ILO: Minimizing the Negative Effects of AI-Induced Technological Unemployment (October 2024)
• AEI: The Economics of AI and the Impending Robot Takeover, Part I (June 2024)
• AEI: To Understand AI Adoption, Focus on the Interdependencies (February 2024)
• Brookings: How Research Universities Are Evolving to Strengthen Regional Economies (February 2023)
• Brookings: Breaking Down an $80 Billion Surge in Place-Based Industrial Policy (December 2022)
• AEI: What “Moneyball” Got Wrong: Pro Baseball Scouts Can Teach Us a Lot About Automation and Technological Unemployment (May 2022)
• Mises Institute: America's Wars Are Far More Costly Than the Pentagon Admits (December 2021)
• WCEG: Exploring the Impact of Automation on the Future of U.S. Workers (December 2021)
• AEI: Evaluating World War II-Era Crisis Innovation (March 2021)
• Cato Institute: Automation and the Fate of Young Workers (February 2021)
• AEI: The Right and Wrong Lessons from “Crisis Innovation” During the Pandemic (January 2021)
• AAAS: Wartime Innovation: Lessons from the Office of Scientific R&D (December 2020)
• AEI: What Happened to Female Workers After Telephone Operator Jobs Went Away? (November 2020)
• AEI: Science Research and the Lessons of World War II (October 2020)
• AEI: What Can We Learn from America's Big Science Research Investment During World War II? (June 2020)
• Cato Institute: Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility (February 2020)

Academic and research outlets

• NBER Digest: Indirect Cost Recovery in Research Funding (July 2025)
• NBER Reporter: Program Report: Development of the American Economy (June 2025)
• Harvard Gazette: Harvard Won't Comply with Demands from Trump Administration (April 2025)
• Fuqua Insights: How a Wartime Program to Support U.S. Troops Fueled Decades of Medical Research (April 2025)
• Harvard Gazette: U.S. Innovation Ecosystem Is Envy of World. Here's How It Got Started. (March 2025)
• American Economic Association: The Roots of U.S. Innovation Clusters (February 2024)
• LSE Impact Blog: Calls for New Manhattan Projects Overlook Crucial Aspects of the World War II Crisis Innovation Model (September 2023)
• Fuqua Insights: Research: Innovation Sparked by Crises (December 2022)
• NBER Reporter: Crisis Innovation: Historical Evidence, Insights, and Open Questions (October 2022)
• VoxEU: The Hidden Costs of Securing Innovation (April 2022)
• NBER Digest: World War II R&D Spending Catalyzed Post-War Innovation Hubs (September 2020)
• HBS Working Knowledge: Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation? (September 2019)
• NBER Digest: WWII Policy Kept Patents Secret, Slowed Innovation (July 2019)
• VoxEU: Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production (January 2019)
• HBS Working Knowledge: Does Competition Make Us More Creative? (November 2015)

Podcast recordings

• Fuqua Insights Podcast: What Happens to Innovation If Research Funding Gets Cut? (July 2025)
• The Visible Hand: Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation (December 2024)
• Freakonomics: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different? (August 2023)
• Freakonomics: Can A.I. Take a Joke? (August 2023)
• NPR Planet Money: Our First Podcast Episode Made by AI (May 2023)

Other media coverage

• The Argument: Don't Get Fancy with Your Labor Market Fixes for AI (December 2025)
• Project Syndicate: Crippling America's Innovation Economy (April 2025)
• Good Science Newsletter: Federal Indirect Costs—Does a Flat Rate Make Sense? (March 2025)
• 80,000 Hours: Michael Webb on Whether AI Will Soon Cause Job Loss, Lower Incomes, and Higher Inequality—or the Opposite (August 2023)
• New Things Under the Sun: How to Impede Technological Progress (July 2023)
• New Things Under the Sun: When Extreme Necessity Is the Mother of Invention (April 2022)
• Broadstreet: Adjusting to Automation (November 2020)