De-industrialization is the talk of the town these days, but this discussion is nothing new. Jean Fourastié's three-sector hypothesis, developed in the 1950s, already described the decline of the industrial sector and the rise of the service sector as a natural evolution on the path to greater prosperity for all. In the 1970s, economists wondered whether we might even be witnessing a transition to post-industrial societies. So much for theory. But what does the empirical evidence say today?
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