Maybe accident rates would be a measure of speedup; I seem to remember studies which included these but don't recall if they were being used to measure speed-up./m
At 22:21 08/05/2005, you wrote:
Speedups are important, but I agree that the effect would be different to measure.
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I would guess that it's impossible to do so. Neoclassicals do this kind of analysis either by doing statistical regression or "growth accounting." The latter is bogus, while the former is very weak.
and how does one measure the intensification of work?
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