Productivity

Technology and Automation Create, Not Destroy, Jobs

June 15, 2011

| Blogs & Op-eds

The productivity gains that technology and automation generate—including through self-service technologies such as ATMs, kiosks, and self-checkout machines—ultimately create jobs, not destroy them, as the President recently claimed.

Still Full of Ideas, but Not Making Jobs

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18621224

Not surprisingly, "The Economist" is skeptical about an innovation policy, but is at least considering ITIF’s ideas.

Why the Growth Rate Matters

Forbes

http://blogs.forbes.com/brinklindsey/2011/03/28/why-the-growth-rate-matters/

Productivity

"The Great Stagnation" Debate with Rob Atkinson

Marginal Revolution

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/03/the-great-stagnation-debate-with-rob-atkinson.html

Debate on "The Great Stagnation"

March 21, 2011 - 9:30am - 11:30am

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

1101 K Street NW

Suite 610A

Washington

20005

Tyler Cowen's recent e-book, The Great Stagnation, has attracted praise and generated intense discussion about the changing nature of the modern U.S. economy. Read more »

Productivity

Debate on "The Great Stagnation"

March 21, 2011

Multimedia from the debate between Rob Atkinson and Tyler Cowen.

Tyler Cowen's recent e-book, The Great Stagnation, has attracted praise and generated intense discussion about the changing nature of the modern U.S. economy. The provocative premise is that median household income growth has stagnated since the 1970s because innovation is no longer the key driver of economic growth.

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