Abstract
Twenty-three previously published papers examine topics in
productivity growth in the information technology industry. Papers
discuss U.S. economic growth in the Information Age; the resurgence of
growth in the late 1990s--whether information technology is the story;
information technology and the U.S. economy; the new
economy--postmortem or second wind; information and communication
technology (ICT) and productivity growth in the United Kingdom;
information technology and the U.S. productivity revival--what the
industry data say; ICT and productivity in Europe and the United
States--where the differences come from; the case of the missing
productivity growth, or whether information technology explains why
productivity accelerated in the United States but not the United
Kingdom; productivity, innovation, and ICT in old and new Europe;
information technology and the G7 economies; ICT and Europe's
productivity performance--industry-level growth account comparisons
with the United States; whether ICT drives EU-U.S. productivity growth
differentials; information technology and the Japanese economy; the
industry origins of Japanese economic growth; information technology
and the world growth resurgence; patterns of industry-level
productivity growth; mind the gap--international comparisons of
productivity in services and goods production; industry origins of the
American productivity resurgence; the industry origins of the
U.S.-Japan productivity gap; explaining a productive decade; market
services productivity across Europe and the United States; a
retrospective look at the U.S. productivity growth resurgence; and the
productivity gap between Europe and the United States--trends and
causes.
Citation
Jorgenson, Dale W., ed. The Economics of Productivity. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Vol. 236. Elgar, 2009.