How The Median Has Fallen

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Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in the latest excerpt from their book The Second Machine Age: “In short, median income has increased very little since 1979, and it has actually fallen since 1999. But that’s not because growth of overall income or productivity in America has stagnated.”

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