Can you do historical counter-factuals?
Warning: rank speculation lies ahead
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on December 16, 2016 ·
10 mins read
Growth links of interest
A quick post to vent some of the pressure from my reading list before it...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on December 12, 2016 ·
5 mins read
Would you pay to save a job?
Mike Konczal has a nice article about how important it is to distinguish “jobs” from...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on December 03, 2016 ·
9 mins read
Employment Going South. Literally.
From 1990 to 2015, the US economy as a whole increased employment by about 30...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on November 30, 2016 ·
11 mins read
Ethnic fractionalization and growth
This is not a post about Donald Trump or the election, except tangentially. I have...
Posted by
Dietrich Vollrath
on November 15, 2016 ·
13 mins read
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