We have computers. Why aren’t we more productive?

From Salon comes this must read on a basic question of macroeconomics: if investments in information technology aren’t increasing productivity, then why do we make them? Because they are necessary to a firm’s survival, and they allow firms to do things they couldn’t do otherwise.

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