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Anton Korinek
Austrian-American economist at the University of Virginia, Stiglitz's principal AI-economics collaborator and one of the foremost macroeconomists working on the distributional consequences of artificial intelligence — the researcher whose formal modeling gives Stiglitz's AI critique its analytical spine.
Anton Korinek holds the Darden School chair in business administration at the University of Virginia and serves as a research associate at the NBER. Trained at Columbia during Stiglitz's tenure there, he has built a career at the intersection of macroeconomics, financial stability, and the economics of artificial intelligence. His collaboration with Stiglitz on AI's distributional consequences — beginning around 2017 and producing sustained output since — represents the most developed formal analysis of the questions the policy discourse struggles to address: how AI productivity gains are distributed, why markets systematically favor labor-saving over labor-augmenting applications, and what policy instruments can correct the resulting distributional outcomes.
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Korinek's distinctive contribution is methodological. Where Stiglitz operates at the level of institutional critique and policy prescription, Korinek builds the formal models that translate political-economic insights into analytical frameworks economists can test, extend, and apply. The 2019 NBER paper Artificial Intelligence and Its