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It could be that he is talking about but with quotes like this I doubt it:

The Roadmap To A High-Speed Recovery | The New Republic

Between 1980 and 2006, the U.S. economy added some 20 million new jobs in its creative, professional, and knowledge sectors.

Especially if we compare with the metric used in the transition to post-ww2:

The Roadmap To A High-Speed Recovery | The New Republic

By 1940, the number of people employed in R&D had quadrupled, increasing from fewer than 7,000 in 1929 to nearly 28,000 by 1940, according to the detailed historical research of David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg.


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by A swedish kind of death on Tue Aug 17th, 2010 at 09:08:39 AM EST
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