#48 - Has Big Tech oversold its productivity? - w/ Victor Menaldo

<p>In this episode, <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/victor-menaldo/">Victor Menaldo</a> speaks to <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/nicolas-wittstock/">Nicolas Wittstock</a> about his forthcoming book on productivity within the US technology sector. Robert Solow famously declared in 1987 that “<em>you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics</em>”. Extending this observation to the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, economists like Robert Gordon have voiced similar skepticism. Victor Menaldo presents preliminary results from his forthcoming book on productivity within the US technology sector.</p>