Why was there low unemployment in the 90s?

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sun Jun 30 21:08:00 PDT 2002



>Brad, should you not add a qualifier that the translation would be likely
>to occur in competitive industries.
>
>On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:52:22PM -0700, Bradford DeLong wrote:
>>
>> Productivity gains are as likely (more likely) to translate into
>> lower prices than higher profits. The distribution of profits across
>> industries has something but not a lot to do with the distribution of
> > productivity...

Yes. So don't use Intel chips or Microsoft software, and you should be OK...


:-)



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