The Solow Productivity Paradox in Historical Perspective
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Growth accounting; General purpose technologies; Productivity paradox;All these keywords.
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- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
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