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by David Metz · 21 Jan 2014 · 133pp · 36,528 words
acceptable cost, safety and environmental impact. We seem to have reached the end of an era of technological advance. This is not unique to transport. Robert Gordon, a US economist, argues that there have been three industrial revolutions: the first created steam engines, cotton spinning and the railways; the second, electricity, the
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still want economic growth and prosperity. MARTIN FORD: This is kind of touching on the economist Robert Gordon’s argument that may be there’s not going to be much economic growth in the future. (Robert Gordon’s 2017 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, offers a very pessimistic view of future
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history. Return again to the idea that $250,000 doesn’t buy you as much in Manhattan as it does in Fargo. Northwestern University professor Robert Gordon cited much data along these lines in a paper asking “Has the Rise in American Inequality Been Exaggerated?” and answering, as you can imagine from
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by Martin Ford · 13 Sep 2021 · 288pp · 86,995 words
has continued to accelerate—has been articulated at length by the economists Tyler Cowen, who published his book The Great Stagnation in 2011,64 and Robert Gordon, who sketches out a very pessimistic future for the United States in his 2016 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth.65 A key
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time required doing things with your hands. In 1870, 46% of jobs were in agriculture, and 35% were in crafts or manufacturing, according to economist Robert Gordon. Few professions relied on a worker’s brain. You didn’t think; you labored, without interruption, and your work was visible and tangible. Today, that
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. The world used to be hyper-local. Just over 100 years ago 75% of Americans had neither telephones nor regular mail service, according to historian Robert Gordon. That made competition hyper-local. A worker with just average intelligence might be the best in their town, and they got treated like the best
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by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
foreseeable future. ‘Unfortunately,’ he admitted, low growth ‘has been present for a long time, but has been masked by unsustainable finances’.15 Veteran US economist Robert Gordon went further, predicting persistent low growth in the USA for the next twenty-five years, as a result of lower productivity, an ageing population, high
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by David Nutt · 30 May 2012 · 605pp · 110,673 words
Jay, Thames & Hudson, 2010 18 few recorded incidents of people taking them accidentally• As above. 19 Valeda mushroom ceremony in Mexico• Seeking the magic mushroom, Robert Gordon Wasson, Life Magazine, June 10th 1957 20 a licence once someone has participated in a workshop, or perhaps passed a test, to ensure that they
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by François Bourguignon · 1 Aug 2012 · 221pp · 55,901 words
countries, the emerging economies often have large domestic markets that offer Acemoglu et al., “Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth.” 2 See, for instance, Robert Gordon, “Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds,” Working Paper 18315, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 1 Globalization and
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by James Livingston · 15 Feb 2016 · 90pp · 27,452 words
goods without the mediation of money—our assessments of future economic growth, GDP and so forth, must begin to look bleak. Leading economists such as Robert Gordon and Tyler Cowen have, accordingly, predicted the decline of innovation and the end of growth. After all, the Commerce Department can’t measure what’s
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interactions—electronic or in person—with Areendam Chanda, German Cubas, David Cuberes, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Ryan Decker, Markus Eberhardt, Lennart Erickson, Jim Feyrer, Doug Gollin, Robert Gordon, Mike Hsu, Greg Ip, Remi Jedwab, Mike Jerzmanowski, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Jenny Minier, Chris Papageorgiou, David Papell, Noah Smith, Bent Sorensen, Liliana Varela, and Kei
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hour after getting free of the roadwork. This growth slowdown has not escaped the attention of, well, anyone with even a passing interest in economics. Robert Gordon’s recent history of economic growth in the United States is entitled The Rise and Fall of American Growth, not The Rise and Continued Pretty
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PayPal founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s famous quotation “We wanted flying cars, and all we got was 140 characters,” or in some of Robert Gordon’s analysis in his recent book. At the same time, techno-optimists say we are in the middle of an unprecedented explosion in technological creativity
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