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To: James Strauss who wrote (48540)	4/28/2000 1:11:00 PM
From: el paradisio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

James and Heinz,I have 2 excellent posts,which can help you in that discussion : Message 13483906 Message 13486394

To: James Strauss who wrote (48540)	4/28/2000 1:18:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

Jim, take a look at Robert Gordon's study, which is debunking the productivity myth a bit: faculty-web.at.nwu.edu note that he's not the only researcher that has noted that the government's 'chained dollars' methodology to account for everything related to PC's is wildly distorting everything from GDP to CPI to productivity data. imo, this is a bit of statistical trickery to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. if productivity were indeed increasing measurably due to higher computing speeds, this should show up in REAL dollars. why use an artificial construct like hedonic pricing? regards, hb