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Heavyweight of productivity: does the microchip match up?


Abstract: The development of the microchip sparked another industrial revolution. But will this revolution yield the long-term surge in productivity that the First and Second industrial revolutions produced?

Keywords: Economic history; Production (Economic theory); Technology; Economic development;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: The Regional Economist

Publication Date: 2001

Issue: Jul

Pages: 4-9