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...more books or CDs or power tools. This kind of growth--Internet gurus like David Wetherell, enthralled by the mathematics of community, call it viral growth--defies conventional valuation and makes the usual measure of retailing--same-store sales, sales per square foot--seem like roman numerals or the abacus, relics of another...
...short, you need to think before you spend. Before going back to the abacus, however, know that the skeptics are still outnumbered by economists and executives who insist that business on the whole is more productive. Economist Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics points out that the U.S. has lately enjoyed "superstrong growth, superlow inflation and a superlow unemployment rate." That could not happen if productivity were really as low as the official figures indicate, he says; the numbers--er, do not compute. So productivity must be increasing faster than calculated, and one likely reason is computerization. Maybe the experts...
...horsemeat and pond snails and crickets. In a chestnut-filled village just 30 min. from central Nagano, a ruddy-faced high school boy gets off his bike to walk a visitor to his destination. An old woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket of huge apples by her side. Nagano is a world of deep, ancestral sounds: the traditional melody of a potato seller audible downtown; the mournful strains of an enka ballad (often known as Japanese...
...Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall user assistant for HASCS, editor-in-chief of the HCS's Computers@Harvard and a Crimson editor. He is fed up with the rapidly changing computer industry and uses an abacus forall his computing needs. Wayne lives...
...some distinct patterns emerged: the stock market sank but ultimately staged a powerful recovery. There was also a noticeable flow into the stocks of small companies. The problem is that in this so-called new-era economy, historical benchmarks have been about as useful as an abacus in Silicon Valley. To borrow a phrase from the new-era crowd, it's different this time...