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Can we escape the grip of secular stagnation?

Jim Riley

9th March 2015

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Are we doomed to secular stagnation, to permanently low rates of economic growth? The debate was sparked off nearly a decade before the financial crisis by the top American economist Robert Gordon. He took a pessimistic view of the impact of the new wave of technology on productivity and economic growth

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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