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In the first part of this mini-series, I surveyed how robots, automation and other productivity-enhancing technology is affecting industries at the heart of the economy as well as some more exotic science fiction examples. In the second part, I considered the “Solow paradox” — the strange combination of breathless innovation with stagnant labour productivity (though not so strange when you realise there is not that much investment in capital embodying the new technologies). 在这几篇迷你系列文章的第一部分，我调查了现今机器人、自动化以及其他提高生产率的技术是如何影响经济核心产业以及一些更奇特的科幻小说例子。在第二部分，我考察了“索洛悖论”(Solow paradox)——令人喘不过气的创新与停滞不前的劳动生产率的奇怪组合（不过当你意识到并没有那么多体现新技术的投资时，这就没那么奇怪了）。 Today, we focus on the question of greatest political consequence. Who stole the jobs — was it robots or foreigners? Or less tendentiously, was the falling number of manufacturing jobs in rich countries caused by trade liberalisation or by automation and other productivity-enhancing technological change? 现在，我们把重点放在这带来的最大的政治影响上。谁偷走了工作——是机器人还是外国人？或者不那么带有倾向性地来看，富裕国家制造业就业数量不断下滑，是由贸易自由化或自动化和其他提高生产率的技术变革造成的吗？ | 
