... Jorgenson, Dale W. (2001), InformationTechnologyand the U.S. Economy, ” American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 1, March, pp. 1-32. _____ (2003), InformationTechnologyand the G7 Economies,” ... S. Ho, and Kevin J. Stiroh (2005), Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, Cambridge, The MIT Press. Jorgenson, Dale W., and Kazuyuki Motohashi (2005), Information Technology ... Africa and the Middle East, like that in Latin America, was essentially stationary 22 1 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYAND THE WORLD ECONOMY by Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong...
... trips between the offshore islands and FujianProvince, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29,2004 ... they play in information technologyand high -technology weaponry. They view the development ofthe semiconductor industry as being vital to economic development and national security and are unwilling ... between theoffshore islands and the mainland. Some 1,540 trips have been madecarrying passengers from Kinmen and Matsu to the port cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian Province, and about 1,000 trips...
... commercial interests and provide their own Tools for planning and management Visitor and wildlife monitoring Better information on visitors and wildlife More efficient and less-costly management ... Gates, 2002. Recommended catalogue entry: Information Technologyand the Forest Sector. Report by the IUFRO Task Force on InformationTechnologyand theForest Sector,” jointly organized by ... viiContributors Anders Baudin, Professor, Department of Forest and Wood Technology, School of Technologyand Design, Växjö University, SE-351 95, Växjö, Sweden. E-mail: anders.baudin@vxu.se....
... creativedestruction.Inthemassmarket,thecollectivepurchasingdecisionsofthelightsdeterminewhichbusinessessucceed and thrive, and whichonesultimatelydecline and fail.Thisisanatural and cyclical process. When an inefficient business fails, itscapital,resources and employeeswilleventually ... collegedegree.Somanyoftheseaveragepeoplemayhavegonetocollegeorevengraduateschool,butmosthavenot.Theyarethepeoplewhodrivetrucks,fixcars, and workindepartmentstores,supermarkets and alltypesofoffices and factories.Theyprobablyarenotneurosurgeons, and theymostlikelydonothaveaPhDfromMIT.Theyworkontheloadingdock, ... Jobs and Artificial Intelligence 67 Automation, Offshoring and Small Business 74 “Hardware” Jobs and Robotics 75 “Interface” Jobs 80 The Next “Killer App” 81 Military Robotics 85 Robotics and...
... 3,026,7102.3%Combinedfoodpreparation and serv-ingworkers,includingfastfood2,461,8901.9%Registerednurses 2,417,1501.8%Laborers and freight,stock, and ma-terialmovers,hand2,372,1301.8%Waiters and waitresses ... preparation,graphic design, and especially all types of information technology arealreadybeingshippedtoIndia and toothercountries.Thistrendwillonlygrow, and asIhavepointedout ... morepopular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen-tageofthethree and ahalfmillioncashiersintheU.S.nolongerhavejobs?Whatadditionaleducation and trainingcanweoffertheseworkers? And whatjobswoulditpre-parethemfor? And what is the impact of thatpotential unemploy-mentonmarketdemandforgoods and services?Cashiersaregenerallynothighlypaid,buttheynonethelessexistaslightsinourmassmarkettunnel.Cashiers,justlikeotherworkers,drivecars,buyclothes and consumerelectronics,rent...
... manyfactorswhichkeepmechanizationatbay,includinglackofeducation and access to capital, small plots withpoor economy ofscale,tradebarriers, and oftenoutrightexploitationatthehandsofgovernments and corrupt officials. ... newmarketresultingfromanexplodingChinesemiddleclassissomethingofamirage.TheChinesemiddleclassisnotanindependentmarket.Thesepeopleareessentiallystandingonthe shouldersofAmerican and Europeanconsumers. And aswehavenotedagain and againinthisbook,thoseWesternconsumersalldependonjobs.Ifautomationbe-ginstodramaticallyimpactemploymentinChina,whileatthesametimedemanddwindlesintheWest and certain-lyifthecatastrophiceventdescribed ... specific job types and technologies and shownhowautomationislikelytohaveamuch broader impact than many of us might imagine— and alsohowthejobsofmanyhighlypaid and highlyedu-ever,...
... exhibitgeneralreasoning.Asecondapproachbeginsbyattempt-ingtounderstand and thensimulatethehumanbrain.TheBlue Brain Project,57 a collaboration between Switzerland’sEPFL (one of Europe’s top technical universities) and IBM, ... 38RobertJ.Shapiro,Futurecast:howsuperpowers,populations, and globaliza-tionwillchangethewayyoulive and work,NewYork,St.Martin’sPress,2008.39ThomasL.Friedman,TheWorldisFlat:ABriefHistoryoftheTwentyFirstCentury,NewYork,Farrar,Strause and Giroux,2005,2006.40China’shighsavingratetheresultofgovernmentpolicy,see:Ea-monnFingleton,IntheJawsoftheDragon:America’sFateintheComingEraofChineseHegemony,NewYork,St.Martin’sPress,2008.41PietraRivoli,TheTravelsofaT-ShirtintheGlobal Economy: AnEcono-mistExaminestheMarkets,Power and PoliticsofWorldTrade,JohnWiley and Sons,NewYork,2005,p40.42Ibid.p142.43JeffRubin and BenjaminTal,“WillSoaringTransportCostsRe-verseGlobalization?,”CIBCWorldMarketsStrategEcon,March27,2008.Web:http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/oil.pdf44Revenueperemployeenumbers.Source:GoogleFinance,basedon2008revenue.45“…growthwithoutjobcreation.”,TheEconomist,August11,2003.Web:http://www.economist.com/agenda/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=198588946Huether,David,“TheCaseoftheMissingJobs,BusinessWeek,April3,2006.Web:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_14/b3978116.htm47Technicallythismightbebettercalled“regressive”or“reversepro-gressive”sincethedeductionishigheratlowerwagelevels.However,thosewordshavenegativeconnotations…48FareedZackaria,TheFutureofFreedom:IlliberalDemocracyatHome and Abroad,NewYork,W.W.Norton&Co.,2003,p.172-173.Notes ... Amazon26“WhysoNervousaboutrobots,Wal-Mart?”,July8,2005,Web:http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5779674-7.html27“FutureStore”Web:http://www.future-store.org/fsi-Internet/html/en/20412/index.html28AshleeVance,“MicrosoftMappingCoursetoaJetsons-styleFu-ture”,NewYorkTimes,March1,2009,Web:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02 /technology/ business-computing/02compute.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&hp29P.W.Singer,WiredforWar:TheRoboticsRevolution and Conflictinthe21stCentury,NewYork,PenguinPress,2009,pp140-1.30Formoreonnanotechnology and livingorganisms,see:RichardA.L.Jones,SoftMachines:Nanotechnology and Life,Oxford,OxfordUniver-sityPress,2004.31Averagewagesbyeducationlevel:U.S.CensusBureauNewsRe-lease,January10,2008.Web:http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/011196.html32WilliamEasterly,TheElusiveQuestforGrowth:Economists’Adventures and MisadventuresintheTropics,Cambridge,MA,MITPress,2002,p.53.33“OutsourcingnottheCulpritinManufacturingJobLoss”,Automa-tionWorld,December9th,2003.Web:http://www.automationworld.com/webonly-32034AlanGreenspan,TheAgeofTurbulence,NewYork,ThePenguinPress,2007,p.397.35ABCNews20/...
... 3,026,7102.3%Combinedfoodpreparation and serv-ingworkers,includingfastfood2,461,8901.9%Registerednurses 2,417,1501.8%Laborers and freight,stock, and ma-terialmovers,hand2,372,1301.8%Waiters and waitresses ... preparation,graphic design, and especially all types of information technology arealreadybeingshippedtoIndia and toothercountries.Thistrendwillonlygrow, and asIhavepointedout ... 2,147,7701.6%Janitors and cleaners,exceptmaids and housekeepingcleaners2,124,8601.6%Bookkeeping,accounting, and audit-ingclerks1,856,8901.4%Secretaries,exceptlegal,medical, and executive1,750,6001.3%Stockclerks and orderfillers...