VoxTalks Economics

VoxTalks Economics


26: Whatever happened to the 15-hour work week?

June 25, 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.