GDP, Productivity, and Financial Performance
In my last post, I got upset because people were using measures of productivity as...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on November 05, 2016 ·
9 mins read
Productivity measures productivity ... that's it
Justin Fox at Bloomberg put up a few articles (here, here) recently digging into trends...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on October 27, 2016 ·
16 mins read
Labor Recovery and the Productivity Slowdown
Everyone loves talking about productivity, and how it doesn’t grow as fast as it used...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on October 15, 2016 ·
11 mins read
Hobsbawm on relative decline and social disruption
I recently re-read Eric Hobsbawm’s Industry and Empire. I didn’t have a reason, other than...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on September 14, 2016 ·
9 mins read
Balanced growth in theory
The last post was on the empirics behind balanced growth paths (BGP), the key organizing...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on September 07, 2016 ·
13 mins read
Is there evidence of balanced growth?
I had the pleasure of attending the DEGIT conference in Nottingham, UK last week. One...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on September 06, 2016 ·
18 mins read