One of the odder little economic debates of this day and age is whether those sharing economy companies like Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, should be allowed to get on with their work of disrupting the ...

Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4, and a former Computer Weekly journalist, tells us that we need to have a spectacular productivity boom to justify the current world economic conditions. He ...

Tying together two recent posts, once you understand that GDP growth isn’t all there is to human progress you can see another problem with Robert Gordon’s techno-pessimism namely that he bounces back ...

My colleague, Frances Coppola, and I are having a back and forth on how, or how not, the sharing economy contributes to economic growth. All most fun including the usual taunting in Twitter and so on.

Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 2012), pp. 17-25 (9 pages) In this paper, we measure U.S. technology shocks by implementing a dual approach, which is based on price data ...

HE doesn’t use e-mail—yet his name is inextricably linked with technological progress. An avid sailor who never strays far from shore, Robert Solow is one of the most adventurous minds in economics, ...

It will seem a little odd to claim a mobile app to aid you in finding parking as a symbol of the new wealth flooding humanity. But as a symbol -- the actual application may or may not work, who knows ...

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...