Productivity: Why It Is Everything

A late 1980s office with beige desktop computers, boxy monitors, a printer and stacks of paper files on desks
In 1987, Robert Solow won the Nobel Prize for explaining growth, and wrote that you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Why output per hour decides how rich a country gets, why one hour of work produces five times what it did in 1948, and whether AI will repeat the Solow paradox. Work After Work, Episode 10.
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