Greg Ip has a nice piece reporting on the latest academic research. If first quarter GDP growth comes in around 2.2 percent, which is now the consensus forecast, chalk up another weak quarter for productivity growth.

–Dean Baker

Dean Baker is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Read more about Dean.