Even +1-2pp annual growth would be a once-in-a-lifetime boom, economist says
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-25
In a follow-up, Afinetheorem notes that even an additional 1pp — maybe 2pp — of annual growth over the next decade would be a boomtime unlike anything the West has seen in our lifetimes, hardly a disappointment. He pushes back that economists aren't just bloviating: there are solid org-econ models of organizational restructuring, diffusion/co-invention models of inefficiencies, and labor transition models and historical empirics backing these arguments.
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