Carl Benedikt Frey
Economic historian and Oxford academic
Carl Benedikt Frey is an economic historian at the University of Oxford who studies technology, economic development and the future of work.
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About Carl Benedikt Frey
Frey is a Swedish-German scholar who works as an economist and economic historian. He is based at the Oxford Internet Institute, is a fellow of Mansfield College, and also holds an Oxford Martin Citi Fellowship at the Oxford Martin School. In 2013 he and Maike Osborne published "The Future of Employment," a paper that put the share of US jobs at high risk from automation at 47%. His book The Technology Trap (2019) was one of the Financial Times Books of the Year. How Progress Ends (2025) reached the final stage for the Lionel Gelber Prize and for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. His articles have appeared in outlets including The Economist, the Financial Times and Foreign Affairs.