On Jan 12, 2008, at 1:13 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> I found WB data on manufacturing value added going back to 1980,
> which I
> copied out of a report in the British Library. I put some of it
> (1980-1998)
> in this article in Critique (http://www.critiquejournal.net/
> jamesh35.pdf,
> page 37). It seems to back up Seth Ackerman, showing that the US
> did ok in
> that period, though I would have to dig up the original excel file
> to give
> you the numbers.
If it's real output, be wary. And if it stops at 1998, it misses the big post-2000 slide.
Doug