The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

By Robert J. Gordon. 2016

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Financial Frictions and the Great Productivity Slowdown (2017, background): “Much attention in academic research has focused on whether the productivity slowdown reflects slowing innovation and technological diffusion (Andrews et al., 2015; Cette et al., 2016; Fernald, 2015; Gordon, 2016), amid declining business dynamism (Decker et al., 2016; Haltiwanger et al., 2014).”
GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy (2019, background): “Our 4 Among others, see, for example, Gordon (2016) and Cowen (2011) giving a pessimistic view and Sichel (2016), Mokyr, Vickers and Ziebarth (2015) and Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2011, 2014) giving a more optimistic view.”
Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks vs. Responsiveness (2018, background): “3 While not their explicit purpose, Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) indeed note that, in their model, rising adjustment costs result in not only lower reallocation and productivity but also higher labor productivity dispersion.”
The Disappointing Recovery of Output after 2009 (2017, background): “44 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2017 reorganized, so the gains from further innovation might have become more incremental (Gordon 2016; Fernald 2015).”
Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown (2017, background): “Gordon (2016) points to multiple possible explanations and ties the current slowdown to the one in 1974–1994, viewing the 1995–2004 acceleration as a one-off aberration.”
The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization (2017, background): “We can understand why an employer would not be overly enthusiastic about investing in new machinery or IT system if there is no labour force to make the most of it (Broadbent, 2015; Gordon, 2016).”
Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory (2019, background): “…in wages and, in turn, a decline in the firm entry rate.13 Another structural shift-based explanation for the fall in the firm entry rate relies on the Gordon (2016) argument that the economy has run out of low-hanging fruit innovations—i.e., ideas that are relatively easier to obtain and have…”
Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Future of Work (2019, neutral): “…transportation and logistics industries besides telecommunications) in contrast to previous, general purpose technologies such as electricity (Gordon, 2016).5 The introduction of robots also offered new opportunities for automation along global supply chains, triggering a flourishing…”
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century (2018, neutral): “investment during the Second World War (Gordon, 2016).”
How to Respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the Second Information Technology Revolution? Dynamic New Combinations between Technology, Market, and Society through Open Innovation (2018, background): “He pointed out that in the case of the success of the Second Industrial Revolution, the performance of technological innovation spread across all economic societies thanks to the reduction of working hours and the increase in wages, which were triggered by President Roosevelt’s New Deal policy, and ”
Political machinery: did robots swing the 2016 US presidential election? (2018, background): “Yet, the continued expansion of manufacturing and rising educational attainment in America allowed most workers to switch into better-paid jobs: the share of national income accruing to the ‘middling sort’ increased up until the 1970s (Gordon, 2016; Lindert and Williamson, 2016).”