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“Productivity isn’t everything,” Paul Krugman wrote in his 1990 book, The Age of Diminished Expectations, “but in the long run it is almost everything.” Productivity is a foundation of prosperity. The ...

U.S. labor productivity initially surged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the massive economic upheaval. As the economy recovered, the level of productivity retreated to its slow ...

Learn how economies are formed and grow. Discover the roles of productivity, specialization, and financial markets in driving ...

It’s become conventional wisdom in some circles that sometime in the 1970s, the link between pay and productivity broke. Workers’ productivity kept rising, but their inflation-adjusted pay did not.

Labor productivity—output per hour worked—drives long-run economic growth. Business leaders looking beyond the next two years will find that their companies’ fortunes are tied to the economy’s growth ...

Welcome everyone. I am thrilled to join you today for our next emerging Tech Economic Research Network event. I’m Louise Willard, and I serve as the Executive Vice President and Chief Information ...

THE PROSPECTS for a productivity resurgence may seem grim. After all, the past decade has featured plenty of technological fatalism: in 2013 Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist, mused of the ...

China's economy is facing a slowdown, with growth dropping from 6.5 per cent before the pandemic to just 4.6 per cent now, ...