The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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What’s causing the productivity slowdown? The subject is controversial among economists, and many different answers have been proposed. Some have argued that it’s merely that existing productivity measures don’t do a good job measuring the impact of new technologies. Our argument here suggests a different explanation, that diminishing returns to sp... See more
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