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Whatever happened to the 15-hour work week

Nicholas Crafts [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 25 June 2021

John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that no one would need to work for more than three hours a day by 2030. How did he get it so wrong? Nick Crafts tells Tim Phillips that, in one way, Keynes has underestimated the change in our work-life balance.

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Topics:  Productivity and Innovation [8]

Tags:  work-life balance [9], productivity [10], well-being [11], Keynes [12]

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/219890
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[4] https://voxeu.org/article/presenteeism-work-and-gender-inequality
[5] https://voxeu.org/article/smart-working-work-flexibility-without-constraints
[6] https://voxeu.org/article/employee-wellbeing-productivity-and-firm-performance
[7] https://voxeu.org/article/time-and-work-bank-england
[8] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/productivity-and-innovation
[9] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/12395
[10] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/135
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1296
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1458