Measuring Productivity in a Service Economy

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez enrique at ee.cornell.edu
Mon Jul 10 12:38:20 PDT 2000


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Barbershops? Computerized clippers? Those gadgets that can picture
> you with a changed haircolor? Claiming a productivity increase for
> barbershops makes me more suspicious than ever that something's
> rotten with those productivity numbers. The spirit of Billy Liar
> spreading through the BLS?
>
> Doug

And if you discount BlS/Greenspan bullshit and population growth, isn't the US growing considerably more slowly than Europe?

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