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16 quotes by Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, and Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, known for his contributions to the world of IT Productivity research and work on the economics of information more generally.
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Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth... →

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Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to... →

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The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have... →

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Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

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There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated... →

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The heart of science is measurement.

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When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

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Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

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G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

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Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

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Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company.... →

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We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use... →

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When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to... →

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