AI will speed up economics research, but history suggests academic gatekeeping won't break
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-07
Responding to claims AI advances in math will hit economics, the author argues AI will solve novel economics problems faster but may not break academic cliques: the printing press made books cheap yet London's Stationers' guild kept a monopoly for 140 years, and the Royal Society long required Fellow sponsorship. Production ≠ recognition — clubs still decide what counts.
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