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RobinHanson's avatar

Fixed; thanks

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gwern's avatar

Dead link. The paper is "Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle", Bloom et al 2012 https://www.aeaweb.org/arti... https://nbloom.people.stanf...

More 'automation as colonization wave' eh... You can't benefit from IT unless you reorganize how you do things, and that often means different people in different configurations and potentially less people.

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