The U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Slowdown

Robert Gordon is the Stanley G. Harris Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, where he has had a distinguished career. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and a member of the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Jeremy Pearce is a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he has worked since 2023. His research combines microdata and theoretical models to study firm dynamics, productivity, innovation, and economic growth. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in Economics. He also holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Santa Cruz.