Tyler Cowan, writing in the NYT feature “The Upshot” dated March 4, 2016, opens 
his essay with this sentence:

> American middle class wages haven’t been rising as rapidly as they once were, 
> and a slowdown in productivity growth is probably an important cause.



The reverse is obviously more correct:

If wages were rising for a time there would be more investment in 
labor-eliminating technology to fight wage gains, and the productivity number 
would be higher.

Productivity improvement has slowed because wages have stopped going up.  
Robert Gordon and Tyler Cowan are wrong.

Gene













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