This is a public repository for all my research going into Post-Labor Economics, which will be used for several books. This research is too important to keep locked away. Furthermore, for the sake of rapid dissemination, robust consensus, and dialectical discussions, this repo is open source.
Website: daveshap.github.io/PostLaborEconomics
- Reading Labor Zero? The book's free companion is at daveshap.github.io/PostLaborEconomics/laborzero: the full Appendix and Bibliography, the four graphics from the front of the book, and three supplementary papers.
- The research library: all 103 reports, grouped by theme.
- White papers: three in-depth papers: Derived and Essential Demand, Post-Labor Household Income Interventions, and the Post-Labor Economics Metrics Reference.
- Videos: the Post-Labor Economics playlist, kept up to date from YouTube.
- Charts and memes: 41 charts with captions and 27 memes.
The /Research folder is the meat and potatoes of this repository. It contains many PDF reports generated by Deep Research tools. This is research directed by humans and automatically carried out by machine, representing the equivalent of thousands of hours worth of work.
This material is to be used as research tools in the drafting of several books, but this repository is extremely valuable in its own right. Feel free to copy the PDFs into NotebookLM or other tools of your choice to discuss.
| Folder or file | What's in it |
|---|---|
Research/ |
The research reports, as PDFs (103). |
Research_txt/ |
Plain-text copies of the reports, for NotebookLM and chatbots. |
Household Income/ |
The reports on household income, dividends and ownership, gathered in one place. |
Charts/ |
41 charts and figures. |
Memes/ |
27 memes. |
docs/ |
The website (GitHub Pages). docs/laborzero/ is the Labor Zero companion; its address is printed in the book, so it never moves. |
generate_pdf_pages.py |
Puts new reports from Research/ on the website. |
update_videos.py |
Keeps the website's Videos page in step with the YouTube playlist. The Update videos GitHub Action runs it every six hours and commits only when the playlist changes. |
convert_pdfs_to_txt.py |
Makes the plain-text copies in Research_txt/. |
Files here keep their paths, so links to them keep working.
This repo is just for personal use. I have it public for open source access. I do not want any feedback on it. All PRs will be deleted.
- Copy the PDFs to NotebookLM to rapidly interrogate the research
- Discuss the material with your favorite chatbot
This repository is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, except the Labor Zero companion material in docs/laborzero/, the website's thumbnails of it (docs/assets/thumbs/plates/ and docs/assets/thumbs/whitepapers/), and the YouTube video thumbnails in docs/assets/thumbs/videos/. Those are © 2026 David Shapiro, all rights reserved.