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The Power of Pessimism
The economist Robert Gordon says that the most interesting question isn't why did productivity growth stagnate from 1970. What accounts for the miraculous run of productivity growth between 1920 and 1970 when we were sort of picking the low hanging fruit, he asks. "If you transported me back to my childhood, it's probably not that much I would miss"