Talk:Productivity

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Saari

this article has most references to Saari. isn't there more diverse literature on the subject? 216.80.119.92 (talk) 14:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Increases in productivity

This section asserts 'Many economists see the economic expansion of the later 1990s in the United States as being allowed by the massive increase in worker productivity that occurred during that period.' But as stated in a pos from Paul Krugman (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/reconsidering-a-miracle/) "... properly measured, the productivity gap between America and Europe never happened." More references in Krugman's post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.98.62.150 (talk) 15:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Productivity per person

I'm not an expert in economics, but I believe productivity per person is an especially important metric. If it is important, then maybe someone could add specific information about it.74.195.16.39 (talk) 11:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone rewrite this?

This article is not written in encyclopedic style, and is not very good for such an important economic topic. Nowhere in an encyclopedia should you ever read, "The next step is..." --68.195.44.36 (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The concept "productivity" is defined in this article by the measuring operations used. To operationally define basic concepts has now become central to all sciences, not only to physics. Operationalization is the process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable in form of variables consisting of specific observations. Like all processes operationalization of the concept "productivity" can be best desribed as a step by step process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.27.58.10 (talk) 09:50, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone have early productivity data?

Does anyone have a table of productivity date before 1929? Or a complete history to date?

"Stuff"

Under the Section "Economic growth and productivity", i found this, " various material inputs (stuff) and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how)". I think that "stuff" is not the right word and i have deleted it. 175.138.253.226 (talk) 13:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]