Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, considerable attention focused on long-term productivity slowdown observed across countries. This was referred as paradox, occurred at a time of significant technological change. The focus is expected resurface and gain prominence, once recovery from crisis fully underway.

The Aldrich Archive is a collection of technical and marketing material covering the period from 1977 to 2000; the physical documents are in the process of being digitised and made available on the internet. The Aldrich Archive includes contemporaneous case studies of end-user computer systems that were used for marketing purposes. This paper analyses these case studies of innovative informatio...

The debate on deindustrialization assumes that domestic industry is a leading sector and produces positive externalities for the whole economy. This paper will partially refute this. Since the early 1990’s, most developed and emerging economies have been subjected to two paradoxes: the paradox of Solow, which calls into question the relationship between ICT investment and productivity gains, an...

As the business environments are changing the world over, executives are thinking of more ways than one to survive competition and avoid elimination. Acceptance of technology and use of IT/IS emerged as one of the means to gain competitive advantage as they equipped a company with improved information sharing, better time management and networking between suppliers and customers. In other words...

IT or the Computing & Communications technology has been central to the economic discussion for several decades. Before the mid-1990s the catch word was the “productivity paradox” coined by Robert Solow, who stated in 1987 that “computers are everywhere visible, except in the productivity statistics”. The New Economy, suddenly became the catch word of the very late 1990s. Its luster however, fa...

With the uncertainty of market environment and variety of customer requirements, an increasing number of organizations are implementing Information Systems(IS) to improve their competitive advantage, and large amounts of firms' annual revenues are invested in Information Technology (IT) resources each year. However, research findings determining the impacts of IT on firm performance reveal conf...

In the last decade, with the publication of his Complete Works, there has been renewed interest in Walras’s methodology, mostly in the French economic literature. In particular, some scholars have argued that Walras characteristically confused positive and normative statements, a mistake all the more surprising given his impressive knowledge of philosophy (the so-called ‘Walras paradox’). This ...

The direction of an association at the population-level may be reversed within the subgroups comprising that population-a striking observation called Simpson's paradox. When facing this pattern, psychologists often view it as anomalous. Here, we argue that Simpson's paradox is more common than conventionally thought, and typically results in incorrect interpretations-potentially with harmful co...

Recent experiments have perfectly verified the fact that quantum correlations between two entangled particles are stronger than any classical, local pre-quantum worldview allows. This is famously called the EPR paradox first conceived as a thought experiment and decades later realized in the lab. We discuss in depth the nature of the paradox and show that the problematics it presents is first a...