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The cost of being half-hearted in AI and how to avoid the Solow Paradox

How can enterprises avoid falling into the trap of perceiving AI roll-out as a failure due to a lack of initial organizational buy-in?

TechRadar · Aug 5

Fed study: AI’s slow productivity story fits a century-old historical pattern

Researchers at the St. Louis Fed looked through 490,000 earnings calls and saw AI productivity surged—but only in talk.

Fortune · Jul 31

Employees using AI are working faster, but the economy isn't more efficient. A look at what happened in the pre-Internet era might explain why

The U.S. might be in the early days of a productivity boom without even knowing it.

Fortune · May 27

BofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the 'productivity paradox,' because 'A process is almost free and it's replicable for eternity'

"I think people love this AI technology because it feels like sorcery," BofA's Savita Subramanian said. "The truth is it hasn't really changed the world that much yet, but I don't think it's something to be dismissed."

Fortune · Aug 23, 2025

Trump was playing chicken with tariffs. Then he chickened out

In a second term of fiat, flubbing and flip–flopping, Trump pursued his desire to wield a club over everyone and everything

The Guardian - US · Apr 11, 2025

How many jobs will AI eliminate? Nobody really knows, and here’s why

As AI becomes more prevalent in the workplace, there are still too many unknowns to take forecasts of employment doom too seriously.

Fortune · Mar 7, 2025

AI's big selling point of boosting worker productivity is so far a phantom

It looks like a return to Solow's Paradox as CEO views of AI's advantage diverge.

Fortune · Feb 25, 2025

RBA's rate hikes creating inflation, Ross Garnaut says, calling for radical overhaul of economic policy

Pointing to big changes that have greatly affected Australia's capacity to deliver rising standards of living, top economist Ross Garnaut calls for a major policy overhaul.

ABC News · May 4, 2023

Wealth of nations: Why some are rich, others are poor – and what it means for future prosperity

Why are some nations rich and others poor? Can the governments of poor nations do something to ensure that their nations become rich? These sorts of questions have long fascinated public officials and economists, at least since Adam Smith, the prominent Scottish economist whose famous 1776 book was titled “An…

The Conversation · Jun 24, 2022