Productivity Panics – Polemics and Realities

Paul Auerbach ()

No 2019-3, Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, Kingston University London

Abstract: Widespread uneasiness has emerged concerning a perceived slowdown in productivity growth. The question posed here is whether our destiny is indeed tied to inexorable movements in productivity and innovation, whatever these things may be, or can we build a future contingent upon collective choices and guided by human needs and desires?

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; innovation; productivity; Schumpeter; technological change; total factor productivity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 O30 O33 O40 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2019-02-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-big, nep-eff, nep-gro, nep-ino and nep-pay
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