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  Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, Kevin J. Stiroh

Productivity (volume 3)

Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, Kevin J. Stiroh

abstract

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how U.S. investment in IT has important parallels in other developed countries.

In analyzing the experience in the United States, the authors identify four IT-producing industries, 17 IT-using industries, and 23 non-IT industries and show that the IT-producing and IT-using industries play a disproportionate role in the American growth resurgence. These industries account for only about 30 percent of US GDP but contributed half of the acceleration in economic growth. The study finds that differences in the relative importance of IT-producing industries in other G7 countries have contributed to wide disparities in the impact of IT on economic growth.



Productivity, Volume 3 will be of special interest to analysts of the "new economy" and its remarkable persistence through periods of boom and recession.



Dale W. Jorgenson is Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of 24 books on economics, including Productivity volumes 1 and 2 (MIT Press, 1995). His collected papers have been published in ten volumes by the MIT Press, starting in 1995.



Mun S. Ho is a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.



Kevin Stiroh is Assistant Vice President in the Banking Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

keywords

ICT, productivity, investment, knowledge economy, economic growth

catalogue card

Title: Productivity (volume 3)
Author: Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, Kevin J. Stiroh
Publication: London; Cambridge: The MIT Press
Subject: Productivity, Economic development, Investments, United States of America, Federal Republic, Japan
ISBN: 0-262-10111-4 (v. 3)

index

1. Understanding the Information Age
2. Aggregate Growth Accounting
3. Information Technology and Growth in the G7 Countries
4. The Changing Structure of Output and Intermediate Inputs
5. Capital Services and Information Technology
6. Labor Input and the Returns to Education
7. Productivity Growth for U.S. Industries
8. The Industry Origins of the American Growth Resurgence
9. Economics on Internet Time

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analysis and debate

Ten Years of (Everyday) Life on the Screen: A Critical Re-reading of the Proposal of Sherry Turkle, by Julio Meneses

ICT, productivity and economic growth: the empirical contribution of Jorgenson, Ho and Stiroh, by Joan Torrent

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