The Computer Revolution: An Economic Perspective

by Daniel E. Sichel

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During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the productivity performance of the U.S. economy in the 1980s remained lackluster--especially in the service sector--leading many observers to suspect that companies were not getting their money's worth from these high-tech investments. At the same time, academic research found little evidence of a productivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081577897X
• ISBN13: 9780815778974
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"