You’re reading this instead of working, aren’t you? You’re undermining the economy, get back to work. At least, that’s what Princeton professor Alan Blinder suspects. While trying to work out why productivity in the U.S. economy has stagnated since the great recession, despite an overall recovery, he came to suspect social media might be having a negative impact. He told NPR: Things like … tweeting, Snapchatting, things that to me are unlikely to raise industrial productivity and may, by the way, reduce that. I’m thinking of things like Facebooking when on the job and other things like that. In the…
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