Global competition and technology / Stephen P. Bradley, Jerry A. Hausman, and Richard L. Nolan -- How will information technology reshape organizations?; Computers as coordination technology / Thomas W. Malone and John F. Rockart -- A framework for the design of the emerging global...

We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find considerable heterogeneity in rates of convergence, including rates for some countries that are so slow that they might not converge (or diverge) in...