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Does the “New Economy” Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
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During the four years 1995-99 U.S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates exceeding that of the “golden age” of 1913-72. Accordingly many observers have declared the “New Economy” to be an Industrial Revolution even more important than the Second Industrial Revolution of 1860-1900, which made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper dissects the recent productivity revival, subtracts out a cyclical component, and concludes that there is no revival of the productivity growth trend in the 88 percent of the private economy lying outside of the durables manufacturing sector. The paper explains this surprising finding by pointing to limitations in computers and the internet in comparison with the great inventions of the past.
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“Gordon (1990, p. 239) calculates that the annual rate of price decline between 1972 and 1987 would have been 35 percent per annum, rather than 20 percent per annum, if this transitional benefit had been taken into account.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Declining Cost of Computer Power and the Pervasiveness of Diminishing Returns
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The available passages from the Preface (pp. 2–4) discuss computer-price research but give no calculation for 1972–1987 or comparison of 35% and 20% annual price declines. Searches for those figures and the mainframe-to-personal-computer transition returned only Preface passages; the cited p. 239 was not available to assess. (LLM, conf=0.75)
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“because the government deflators for software and telecommunications equipment exhibit implausibly low rates of price decline (Jorgenson and Stiroh, 2000).”
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Sections 38–40 identify reasons official deflators may understate price declines for software and communications equipment, and section 66 tests alternative deflators with faster declines. But the paper calls the software issue a competing explanation and the communications-equipment bias possible; it does not establish that both official rates are implausibly low. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“However, as shown by Jorgenson and Stiroh (2000), the outcome of the debate over the software deflators has almost no impact on the question of how this sector of the Internet economy affects productivity in the rest of the economy.”
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Section 66 examines alternative software price deflators, and section 70 says they change measured output growth and capital services. Neither passage assesses whether the choice of deflator has almost no impact on the software sector’s effect on productivity in the rest of the economy; searches for that comparison found no passage that settles it. (LLM, conf=0.68)
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“the nominal share of computer hardware expenditures in the total economy (which implicitly holds income constant) rose rapidly before 1987 but barely increased at all after that year”
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“The capital-deepening effect of faster growth in capital relative to labor in the aggregate economy accounts for 0.33 percentage points of the acceleration (all due to computers), and an acceleration of multifac-”
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“First, when examined closely, it turns out that a major fraction of the revival in multifactor productivity growth has occurred within the part of the economy engaged in producing computers and peripherals, and within the rest of the durable manufacturing sector, which together comprise only about 12 percent of the private business economy.”
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“The remaining 0.64 points can be directly attributed to computers.”
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“tor productivity growth in computer and computer-related semiconductor manufacturing account for almost all of the rest.”
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“Although the price decline of computing power has accelerated from 1995-99 as opposed to the period from 1987-94, as shown earlier in Figure 1, over the last five decades these rapid rates of price decline are standard.”
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“Yet a cyclical effect of the magnitude estimated here is not unprecedented or unusual.”
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“However, in the remaining 88 percent of the economy, the New Economy's effects on productivity growth are surprisingly absent, and capital deepening has been remarkably unproductive.”
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“While the aggregate numbers are impressive, the productivity revival appears to have occurred primarily within the production of computer hardware, peripherals, and telecommunications equipment, with substantial spillover to the 12 percent of the economy involved in manufacturing durable goods.”
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“Many of the industries that are the heaviest users of computer technology-like airlines, banks, and insurance companies-began in the 1960s and 1970s with mainframe technology and still perform the most computation-intensive activities on mainframes, often using personal computers as smart terminals to access the mainframe database.”
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“Hours growth lags behind output growth and responds by roughly 0.75 of the output change; thus growth in output per hour exhibits a temporary acceleration when hours are lagging behind output changes, and in addition increases by roughly 0.25 of any excess in output growth relative to trend.”
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“As a result, after taking capital deepening into account, line 11 shows a substantial structural deceleration in multifactor productivity growth in the economy outside of the durable goods manufacturing sector.”
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“Second, the period from 1995 to 1999 is much shorter than the earlier three time periods and during at least part of that time, it seemed clear even to many of the New Economy optimists that output growth was running at a faster pace than the sustainable long-term growth trend.”
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“At the end of 1999 the level of nonfarm business output per hour was 2.0 percent above trend, a smaller cyclical deviation than occurred in 1966, 1973, and 1992.”
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“But in either case, spillover effects on multifactor productivity in the noncomputer economy are absent (column 1) or slightly negative (column 2).”
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“The rate of change of price and quantity both accelerate after 1995 (as indicated by the greater price declines and quantity increases between annual observations) but the slope becomes steeper rather than flatter.”
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“The rate of price change has varied over time, but rapid price declines also occurred during the 1950 -80 interval dominated by the mainframe computer and the 1980 -95 interval dominated by the transition from mainframe to personal computer applications prior to the invention of the Internet.”
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“The analysis here argues that .50percentage points of that increase is a cyclical effect (column 1, line 2); .19 points of that increase results from changes in measurement of prices and labor quality; .33 points is the capital deepening from greater investment in computers; .29 points is the acceleration of multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing computers; .27points is the acceleration”
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“In this calculation, the structural acceleration of labor productivity on line 8 is 0.42 percentage points, compared to 0.64 for the first column.”
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“The capital stock with which I work has increased by a factor of almost 30, according to the hedonic price methodology, yet my productivity has hardly budged”
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“Improvements in performanceprice ratios for individual computer components are substantially larger, by a factor of 16.2 for computer processors, 75.5 for RAM, and 176.0 for hard disk capacity.”
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“This acceleration in the price decline of computers since 1995 has been accompanied by a revival of productivity growth in the aggregate economy which is impressive in comparison with the American historical record dating back more than a century.”
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“producers' durable equipment investment in software in 1999 was $143.3 billion, almost 50 percent larger than such investment in computer and peripheral hardware.”
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“The accelerated rate of price decline in computer attributes has been accompanied since 1995 by the invention of the Internet, by which I really mean the widespread public use of the web using web browsers.”
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“The use of the Internet for e-mail long predated the invention of web browsers, and the hardware and software requirements for straight e-mail, as opposed to e-commerce, are very small.”
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“This pattern suggests that while the pace of technological change has speeded up in the last few years, the relationship between supply and demand is not qualitatively different than earlier advances in the computer industry.”
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“As a result, there has been an exponential rate of decline in my output-to-capital ratio, and an equally sharp decline in the marginal productivity of computer capital.”
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“This set of inventions that made the world smaller can be traced back to the telegraph (1844) and includes the telephone (1876), phonograph (1877), popular photography (1880s and 1890s), radio (1899), motion pictures (1881 to 1888), and television (1911).Television is the only one of these innovations that was diffused into the popular marketplace after World War II.”
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“After a somewhat longer lag, electric motors embodied in consumer appliances eliminated the greatest source of drudgery of all, manual laundry; refrigeration virtually eliminated food spoilage; and air conditioning made summers enjoyable and opened the southern United States for modern economic development (David, 1990).”
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“The Internet is yet another step in the evolution of computer technology, also made possible by decreasing costs of computer power.”
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“They helped to reduce air pollution created by industrial and heating uses of coal, and they made possible many new and improved materials and products, as well as conquering illness and prolonging life.”
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“The cost of computing has dropped exponentially, but the cost of thinking is what it always was.”
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“In the opening decades of the twentieth century, electric motors revolutionized manufacturing by decentralizing the source of power and making possible flexible and portable tools and machines.”
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“In this sense, computers have been around for almost 50 years.”
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“However, computers are actually less pervasive in the economy than is generally thought, because some tasks are resistant to replacement of human beings by computers.”
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“Mokyr and Stein (1997, p. 146) credit Louis Pasteur's germ theory of disease for the great decline in mortality in the four decades prior to World War I, long before the invention of antibiotics, although in part the development of indoor plumbing was independent of the germ theory and dates to the invention of the indoor flush toilet.”
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- Not matchedcites Mokyr and Stein (1997)
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“Sharing the title with electricity for the most important invention that had its main diffusion in the twentieth century is the internal combustion engine, which made possible personal autos, motor transport, and air transport.”
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“Numerous industries have run into barriers to steady growth in productivity, most notably the airline industry when jet aircraft reached natural barriers of size and speed, and the electric utility industry when turbogenerator/boiler sets reached natural barriers of temperature and pressure.”
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“The reason that electric light and electric motors took time to diffuse is that initially they were very expensive and didn't work very well.”
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“Since Gary Becker's (1965) seminal article on the economics of time, household production has been viewed as an activity which combines market goods and time.”
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“The real revolution in word processing came at the beginning, by ending repetitive retyping and by allowing revisions to be inserted while the rest of the document would automatically reformat itself.”
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“The apparent dearth of productivity growth in the construction and home maintenance industry reflects that electric portable power tools could only be invented once and have been subject to only marginal improvements in recent decades.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Declining Cost of Computer Power and the Pervasiveness of Diminishing Returns
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✗ Based: failsProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“This is surprising, because 76.6 percent of all computers are used in the industries of wholesale and retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and other services, while just 11.9 percent of computers are used in five computer-intensive industries within manufacturing, and only 11.5 percent in the rest of the economy (McGuckin and Stiroh, 1998, Table 1, p. 42).”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > Table 1
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites McGuckin and Stiroh, 1998
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Load-bearingStrength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“The reason is that using alternative software deflators with radically faster rates of price decline has two offsetting effects from the point of view of productivity calculations: capital inputs grow faster, but total output grows faster, too.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Positive and Negative Sides of the Internet
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Perhaps the most important single consumer benefit at present, also now used universally within business firms, is e-mail.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Positive and Negative Sides of the Internet
Strength:hedged· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✗ Based: failsProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
In the paper
“Even Business Week, normally enthusiastic about the benefits of the New Economy, admits that the latest increments in chip speed offer”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > Conclusion
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Wildstrom (1999, p. 23)
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Load-bearingStrength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.
In the paper
“The record compiled for 1870 -1996 in Table1is based onGordon (2000b), which merges data fromKendrick (1961) with BEA and BLS data for the postwar period and develops estimates for labor and capital composition to carry the postwar BLS composition adjustments back from 1948 to 1870.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > Conclusion
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Gordon (2000b)
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not matchedcites Kendrick (1961)
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✓ Based: passesProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
In the paper
“In the Oliner-Sichel decomposition on which line 9 is based, computers account for all of the acceleration in the capital-deepening effect, and the additional acceleration attributable to semiconductors and telecommunications is exactly canceled out by a deceleration of capital deepening for all other types of equipment and structures (Oliner and Sichel, 2000, Table 2, lines 2 through 7).”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > Conclusion
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Oliner and Sichel, 2000, Table 2, lines 2 through 7
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Overall, there is more capital deepening and a higher share of the productivity acceleration accounted for by the software industry, but no change in any conclusions about spillovers from software to the rest of the economy.”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Positive and Negative Sides of the Internet
Load-bearingStrength:plain· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“The benefits of e-commerce also include the provision of vast amounts of free information that was formerly expensive or inconvenient to obtain”
§ Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? > The Positive and Negative Sides of the Internet
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:direct· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✓ Based: passesProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
The authors state this as an assumption.
Actual and trend output were equal in the later stages of upswings in 1954:Q1, 1963:Q3, 1972:Q2, 1978:Q2, 1987:Q3 and 1995:Q4.
“Moreover, it is assumed that actual and trend output were equal in the later stages of upswings in 1954:Q1, 1963:Q3, 1972:Q2, 1978:Q2, 1987:Q3 and 1995:Q4.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The New Economy is more about computers than pharmaceuticals.
“But in common discourse, the New Economy is certainly more about computers than pharmaceuticals.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Word processing is the only use of computers in the demand curve in Figure 3.
“This is the demand curve for computers which is drawn on the simplified assumption that word processing is the only use of computers, but the point can be made in multiple dimensions.”
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Electric-motor productivity gains are placed in different centuries
MinorOne passage says the productivity benefits of electric light and motors did not arrive until the opening decades of the 21st century. Another says electric motors revolutionized manufacturing in the opening decades of the twentieth century.
“so that their productivity benefits did not arrive until the opening decades of the 21st century.”
“In the opening decades of the twentieth century, electric motors revolutionized manufacturing by decentralizing the source of power and making possible flexible and portable tools and machines.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gordon, R. J.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gordon, Robert J
- ORCID
- Gordon, Robert J
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2000-11-01
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 49-74
- ISSN
- 0895-3309 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2142353537
- Cited by
- 1,206
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 49
- FWCI
- 266.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Journal of Economic Perspectives (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Productivity
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economic Development and Digital Transformation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Development
- Keywords
- new economy, productivity growth, Second Industrial Revolution, computers, internet, technological change
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-11, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-11 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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