Joe Atikian

Joe Atikian is the author of 4 books on economics and technology.

Joe's latest book explains the quickly evolving world of self-driving vehicles. "Autonomous: the Coming Crash of Self-Driving Cars" shows you exactly why fully driverless cars will remain little more than a remote possibility for most of the world outside of China. This is a highly complex suite of technologies that has consumed billions of dollars in development with no progress toward eliminating the human driver from public roads. If you are a technology enthusiast, investor, or a car driver you need to know the implications and risks that driverless cars could have on issues of road, safety, drivers' rights, law, insurance, and the economy. This is a compact book packed with information on these issues.

"Industrial Shift: The Structure of the New World Economy" is published by Palgrave-Macmillan (2013) and is suitable both for the general reader and for economists. It shows that in the rapidly changing global economy, the popular impression of declining manufacturing and agriculture is largely unfounded. In fact factory output is growing virtually everywhere, but remains hidden by even faster service sector growth. More surprising is that more jobs have been created in computer-related sectors than have been lost in manufacturing. Several other surprises are revealed in employment, wages, and regional progress.

"Saving Money: The Missing Link", outlines the mindset of a saver as well as the three basic ideas behind your financial power. No tips or tricks here, but a solid foundation based on how to think about this tricky aspect of personal affairs.

"Cuba Under Embargo" examines the macroeconomic impact of the US embargo on Cuba. Since the usual types of macro data do not exist in Cuba's case, Joe has compiled a series of alternative indicators to assess the damage. And since there has never been such a study, the results may be surprising.

Joe has an honors degree in economics and a 23 year career in automotive and utilities design, engineering, and management.