Ye Olde Question for Mister Brooks
Posted By Don Boudreaux On July 5, 2011 @ 10:12 am In Complexity & Emergence,Growth,Innovation,Myths and Fallacies,Seen and Unseen,Work | Comments Disabled
In his column in today’s New York Times [1], David Brooks lists as among America’s “problems” (his word) the fact that
[m]anufacturing employment is cratering even as output rises.
I wonder if Brooks writes his columns, essays, and books using only a quill, parchment, and snailmail. If he doesn’t use these inefficient means of production – that is, if he in fact uses computers, word-processing software, ink-jet printers, e-mail, and other modern techniques that increase his productivity (and, thus, that cause the amount of time that he and others spend producing punditicities to crater even as their output rises) – why does he bemoan increasing worker productivity in the manufacturing sector?
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[1] In his column in today’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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