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When Did an Increase in Efficiency Become a Bad Thing?

from Kevin Williamson in National Review, The Social Machine: American factories are one of the wonders of the world, and, in spite of what President Donald Trump, Senator Bernie Sanders, and other lightly informed populists claim, they are humming. U.S.

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The Fool in the Mirror

The editors write in the Wall Street Journal, Manufacturing Decline- Obama, Santorum and the political allocation of capital,  Feb 17, 2012. Excerpt: Real manufacturing output stood at about $35,000 per worker in 1947, in constant dollars. It doubled by 1980 as

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