While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued … - Jan Hatzius

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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Jan Hatzius

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

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