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Productivity and Public Policy (SAGE Yearbooks on Public Policy Studies)
Productivity and Public Policy - SAGE Yearbooks on Public Policy Studies Author:Marc Holzer, Stuart S. Nagel How can nations improve their low rate of productivity growth? The solution to this universal problem is to be found only through a complex systematic and painstaking process.This volume tackles the problem of productivity improvement from a societal or national perspective rather than the perspective of a single producing entity.Societal produc... more »tivity affects every policy problem, including defence, inflation/unemployment, crime, civil liberties, and health. Dealing with productivity in terms of the key elements of land, labour, capital, management, and organization, Holzer and Nagel have collected essays that define key questions or considerations, explore the subtleties of derivative productivity improvement programmes, and offer conclusions as to pragmatic policy development and implementation.Productivity and Public Policy is published in cooperation with the Policy Studies Organization.« less