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Information Technology and the G7 Economies

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In this paper I present international comparisons of economic growth among the G7 nations—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. These comparisons focus on the impact of investment in information technology (IT) equipment and software over the period 1980–2001. In 1998 the G7 nations accounted for nearly sixty percent of world output1 and a much larger proportion of world investment in IT. Economic growth in the G7 has experienced a strong revival since 1995, driven by a powerful surge in IT investment.

See Angus Maddison (2001) for 1998 data for world GDP and the GDP of each of the G7 countries.

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  1. Department of Economics, Harvard University, 122 Littauer Center, Cambridge, MA, 02138-3001

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  1. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA

    Uday Apte

  2. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Uday Karmarkar

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Jorgenson, D.W. (2007). Information Technology and the G7 Economies. In: Apte, U., Karmarkar, U. (eds) Managing in the Information Economy. Annals of Information Systems, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36892-4_2

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