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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from MIT sets out to understand precisely why the labor share of GDP has fallen from 67% in 1980 to just 59% today. The discontent from economists has mainly arisen due to the remarkable stability of labor’s share of GDP throughout the 20th century. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. in the most radical technologies. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. But the fairy tale that the U.S. In the U.S.,

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.