The Myth and Reality of Manufacturing in America

That's the title of a small pamphlet on manufacturing by Michael J. Hicks and Srikant Devaraj which argues that "Almost 88 percent of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity growth..."However, the accounting exercise they conduct to get that number contains a...

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There is a huge hole in Trump's promise to bring back US manufacturing jobs

That's the title of an article from Business Insider.There is much I like about these articles. This one is better than most, as it at least plots data. However, I don't quite understand why they focus on robots and productivity gains, rather than the slowdown in the growth of real manufacturing output....

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