Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy Project

Starting in the mid 1990s, the U.S. economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity attributed in large part to investment and rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management. To better understand the sources of these gains and the policy measures needed to sustain them, a committee of experts convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on trends in telecommunications, software, semiconductors, and computer components. The final report in the series, “Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age” has been released [click on link on the right for more full text]. [Click here to read or purchase]

Reports in this series:

Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy, Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy: Report of a Symposium

Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies - Report of a Symposium

Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium

Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions -- Report of Symposium