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BPEA | 1983 No. 2Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of U.S. Productivity Growth
Thomas E. Weisskopf,
Thomas E. Weisskopf
University of Michigan
David M. Gordon, and
David M. Gordon
New School for Social Research
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Thomas E. Weisskopf
University of Michigan
David M. Gordon
New School for Social Research
Samuel Bowles
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1983, No. 2
MOST ECONOMISTS agree that the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth in the United States since the mid-1960s has played a pivotal role in the poor performance of the U.S. economy. And yet, “despite numerous studies of the slowdown,” BPEA editors William C. Brainard and George L. Perry conclude, “its causes have remained largely a mystery.