In the July/August 2021 edition of MultiLingual magazine, Jaap van der Meer wrote an article called “Translation Economics in the 2020s.” Alan Melby and Christopher Kurz disagreed with his position and wrote a rebuttal called “Data: Of Course! MT: Useful or Risky. Translators: Here to Stay!,” which was published in the November/December 2021 issue of MultiLingual magazine.

Here are the references for Melby and Kurz’s rebuttal.