3 papers
econ.GN2026
Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Behavioral Protocols and Cognitive Reframing
Alex Farach, Alexia Cambon, Lev Tankelevitch +2
Organizations have widely deployed generative AI tools, yet productivity gains remain uneven, suggesting that how people use AI matters as much as whether they have access. We cond…
econ.GN2026
AI as Coordination-Compressing Capital: Task Reallocation, Organizational Redesign, and the Regime Fork
Alex Farach
Task-based models of AI hold organizational structure fixed. We model AI as agent capital that compresses managers' per-link coordination costs toward residual floors for consequen…
econ.TH2025
Evolving the Productivity Equation: Should Digital Labor Be Considered a New Factor of Production?
Alex Farach, Alexia Cambon, Jared Spataro
As the digital economy grows increasingly intangible, traditional productivity measures struggle to capture the true economic impact of artificial intelligence (AI). AI systems cap…