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Productivity and Economic Growth

In: Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

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  • Dale W. Jorgenson, 1991. "Productivity and Economic Growth," NBER Chapters, in: Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, pages 19-118, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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