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How America Compares offers data and analysis on an encyclopedic range of social indicators, comparing the United States with 17 other politically stable, economically affluent democracies. Occasionally, there are more global perspectives, but most of the book examines commonalities and contrasts among these advanced democracies. These countries have been among the world’s greatest innovators, and the knowledge economy has become ever more important in all of them. Moreover, in all of them the digital revolution has transformed both personal consumption and many economic sectors.
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Also draws on Jay Shambaugh et al. ‘Eleven Facts about Innovation and Patents’ The Hamilton Project, Brookings, December 2017.
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Data on number of personal computers can be found in Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins How Australia Compares (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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Tiffen, R., Gauja, A., O’Connor, B., Gittins, R., Smith, D. (2020). Science, Technology and the Digital Revolution. In: How America Compares. How the World Compares. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9582-6_13
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