productivity

• “No doubt the few percentage point increase in productivity from the slave class make a higher pie, and slightly more than linear growth.”

  And Bring on the Mexicans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Economists always forget that a job with no corresponding increase in productivity is a net loss, it is simply another squirrel hauling walnuts.”

  The Saddest Sentence I've Read Today, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Using the conventional national economic accounts, we find that the rate of increase in productivity is large enough to account (in the statistical sense) for almost the entire growth of product per capita.”

  Simon Kuznets - Prize Lecture

• “Apart from budget growth and number of employees, the only gauge of an agency's "productivity" is the regulations it issues, as Cato”

  Forbes: It's Time To Regulate The State

• “Re: [Manuel Dexterity] Interesting study in "productivity”

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• “Re: [Reefhound] Interesting study in "productivity”

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• “These are not only essential to maintaining workplace morale and increasing long-term productivity, but they also give people the skills necessary to carry out redesigned jobs that have greater spans of control.”

  Forbes: Upgrading Talent

• “But it's possible that at least some corporations could be pressured to change their ways and support the long-term productivity that comes with union rights, because this week a coalition of investors who hold over $750 billion in assets wrote a letter to 100 leading corporations asking them twhether they support the Employee Free Choice Act..”

  Art Levine: Red Cross, Wal-Mart Agree: Life is Cheap for Workers, Public

• “SLINT-Uganda's mission is to empower people to secure sustainable incomes, food security and improved quality of life while at the same time maintaining the diversity and long-term productivity of the supporting natural resource base.”

  Empowering Butikiro, Uganda To Secure Sustainability

• “It is the result of decades of policy that elevated corporate profit above almost every human need, measured corporate success by the quarterly statement instead of long term productivity, and systematically reduced the wages of ordinary Americans while the pay of top executives went through the roof, further concentrating the wealth of America in the hands of a few.”

  Political Courage and Better Health Care

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