Where did all the investment go?
The fact that economic growth has slowed in the last few decades is not news,...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on October 25, 2017 ·
18 mins read
Why don't tax cuts boost growth?
Relative to current events, this probably seems less important at the moment, and a week...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on October 03, 2017 ·
12 mins read
Harvey
You may or may not realize that the global headquarters of Growthecon.com is in Houston....
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on August 31, 2017 ·
11 mins read
Rising Markups and Falling Productivity
In between checking weather updates here in Houston, I finally got around to reading the...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on August 26, 2017 ·
20 mins read
Are some places "More Malthusian" than other?
I’ve got a new working paper out (pdf or repec), co-authored with Ryan Johnson, on...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on July 27, 2017 ·
12 mins read
The Return of Peasant Mentality?
Without intending to, I ended up taking a blog hiatus (blacation?) for about a month....
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on June 28, 2017 ·
13 mins read
Understanding the Cost Disease of Services
As my internal clock is not on internet time, I’m only now getting up a...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on May 15, 2017 ·
17 mins read