Power Laws and Economics

She focuses on two main areas: information technology adoption and firm performance, where she examines the drivers of IT adoption within firms and its impact on innovation and market performance; and AI and the future of work, where she leverages large-scale payroll data to study how emerging technologies, particularly generative AI, are reshaping employment, wages, skill demands, and organizational structures. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Strategic Management Journal.

Seth’s research focuses on the economics of automation, digitization, and networks. Seth’s current projects at the lab include research on complexity and power laws in the economy, information technology and the scalability of different occupations, understanding experimental evidence from AI automation experiments, and global, macroeconomic, OLG-CGE modeling of automation scenarios.

Seth is an assistant professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics. Before coming to Chapman University, Seth was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Seth received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 2016. His dissertation advisor was Laurence Kotlikoff. He received a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Tulane University in 2012.

Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of technology and artificial intelligence. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

One of the most-cited authors on the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.