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The latest revision to US economic growth will do nothing to tamp down the flood of analyst and media observations about American outperformance versus its economic rivals. Third-quarter GDP growth, ...

It’s a puzzle: Why haven’t the benefits of the digital economy shown up in the big-picture productivity numbers? Well, maybe these technologies really aren’t that consequential, as historian Robert ...