Innovation and the Productivity Crisis
The collapse of U.S. productivity growth since the late 1960s has been the most severe and persistent of recent economic problems. This volume reviews the extent of the growth slowdown, evaluates several contributing factors, and suggests strategies for improvement. The authors find that inflation, recessions, oil price fluctuations, and other economic disruptions in the 1970s had an averse effect on economic performance, but, they suggest, a slowing in the pace of innovation and a failure to exploit the benefits of innovation also contributed to the weakness in productivity.Baily and Chakrabarti provide a comprehensive assessment of U.S. tec…
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Weitere Autoren: Chakrabarti, Alok K.
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-0759-2
- EAN: 9780815707592
- Produktnummer: 19521851
- Verlag: Brookings Inst
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Seitenangabe: 90 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
Über den Autor
Martin Neil Baily is the director of the Business Initiative at Brookings. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1999 to 2001. He is the author of Transforming the European Economy (Institute for International Economics, 2004).Alok K. Chakrabarti is Associate Vice President for Research and William A. Mackie Professor of Commerce and Engineering at Drexel University.
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