We investigate, both theoretically and quantitatively, a previously unexplored link between adult mortality and growth. Our mechanism allocates a central role to individuals as carriers of useful ideas and to personal contact as an important means of passing on the useful ideas to future...

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists’ claim that Sweden’s growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has not grown slowly relative to other countries, there...

Growth accounting exercises point to aggregate TFP differences as the dominant source of the large cross-country income differences. In this paper, I ask which sectors account for the aggregate TFP gap between rich and poor countries. Data limitations for developing countries have led...

I boken Bortom dot.com-företagen sammanfattar Robert E. Litan och Alice Rivlin resultaten från en utvärdering som gjorts av Brookingsinstitutet. I denna slås det fast att Internet kommer att möjliggöra en 0,25 till 0,5 procentenheter högre produktivitetstillväxt per år i den amerikanska...

OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether there are differences in menfs and womenfs use of the Internet and whether any such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to show trends in Internet usage and to estimate...

Introduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the book -- Harvard, Princeton and Yale -- Where rigid order meets random chaos -- Leap-frog : a short history of economic policy -- Immigration : the google guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The buffett...