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Those who announce the demise of American's position as an economic world leader are, like the author of Mark Twain's obituary, a bit premature. "Productivity and American Leadership "examines and analyzes the long run productivity performance of the United States, comparing it with that of other industrialized countries. It shows that the U.S. record, both recent and over longer periods, is far better than is widely believed, although the authors offer no grounds for complacency. Methods of measuring productivity, their appropriate uses, and their implications for well being are covered and policies are proposed that will lead to a more productive economy. The books unique long term focus reveals that while the United States may currently be lagging behind other industrialized nations in terms of productivity growth, there is no evidence of a slowing of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing or in our share of manufacturing employment in the industrialized world. Other industrialized economies are learning from the United States (as well as from one another) and are gradually approaching our productivity levels, while the United States returns to "normal" historical rates after a brief period of extraordinary postwar growth. "Productivity and American Leadership "examines numerous underlying factors that bring about changes in productivity - the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy, the movement toward a more information centered economy, saving

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A scholarly survey and analysis of secular trends in US labor and total factors of productivity; the long-run relative share of the US in the world economy; and the identification of transitory and permanent elements in economic change. This analysis is very important in present-day discussions of alleged erosion in US living standards and international competitiveness. Technical appendixes present data and statistical analyses of variables causally related to many underlying factors of productivity. A concluding chapter presents the authors' main findings, policy prescriptions for the long term, and projected consequences of failure to meet the requirements of sustained absolute and relative economic gain. Extensive footnotes, a 16-page list of references, and a detailed index. Highly recommended for all libraries. Lighter but recommendable complementary works are Michael L. Dertouzos et al., Made in America: Regaining the Competitive Edge (CH, Dec'89) and American Living Standards: Threats and Challenges, ed. by R.E. Litan, R.Z. Lawrence, and C.L. Schultze (CH, Apr'89). -C. G. Williams, University of South Carolina

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William Jack Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York on February 22, 1922. He served in the Army during World War II and got a job at the Agriculture Department, where he worked on allocating grain supplies to starving countries. He graduated from City College and enrolled in the London School of Economics in 1947, after initially being rejected. Less than six weeks after school started, he was hired to become a member of the faculty. He taught at Princeton University from 1949 until 1970 and then taught at New York University from 1971 until his retirement in 2014.

As an economist, he identified Baumol's cost disease, which explains why the cost of services, like haircuts and college educations, rises faster than the cost of goods, like T-shirts. He published dozens of books, hundreds of papers, and several congressional testimonies on entrepreneurs, environmental policy, corporate finance, stock sales, the economics of Broadway theaters, inflation, and competition and monopolies. He died on May 4, 2017 at the age of 95.

(Bowker Author Biography)