While a spike in productivity—essentially the measure of how much output a worker creates per hour—is generally viewed as 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 ...

“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 ...

Policymakers and economists generally agree that financial development—that is, well-functioning financial institutions and markets, such as commercial and investment banks, and bond and stock ...

Understanding productivity growth more fully is crucial because it plays such an outsize role in economic growth “Productivity isn’t everything,” Paul Krugman wrote in his 1990 book, The Age of ...

For much of last year, the consensus among Wall Street economists was a recession was imminent. Instead, we had healthy economic growth, low unemployment, declining inflation rates and strong stock ...

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 ...

I get this a lot: Why do you care so much about trying to accelerate productivity and economic growth? Are you some sort of neoliberal, “Make the line go up,” “What’s good for Wall Street is good for ...

Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a global leader in digitizing and automating workflows to deliver intelligent operations, today announced new research in collaboration with Oxford ...