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The productivity obsession has a measurement problem

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By Ross Gittins Verified
| pearlsandirritations.com
The focus on productivity as the key to economic growth ignores the fact that we can’t directly observe productivity. We need better ways to measure improvements in overall living standards. The great new god of economics, productivity, may have feet of clay. The modern world is a noisy place, but you’ve probably noticed the way economists now give speeches extolling the virtues of “increasing productivity”. Such speeches were much rarer when I became an economic journalist in the 1970s. Why?
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The productivity obsession has a measurement problem

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By Ross Gittins Verified
| Pearls and Irritations
The focus on productivity as the key to economic growth ignores the fact that we can’t directly observe productivity. We need better ways to measure improvements in overall living standards. The great new god of economics, productivity, may have feet of clay. The modern world is a noisy place, but you’ve probably noticed the way economists now give speeches extolling the virtues of “increasing productivity”. Such speeches were much rarer when I became an economic journalist in the 1970s. Why?
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We’re running late on climate, but not out of time

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By Ross Gittins Verified
| pearlsandirritations.com
Overshooting the 1.5 degrees target for limiting global warming is not good news but there is progress on renewable energy and electrification. I confess to being in two minds about climate change. On one hand, I’ll be dead before it gets really bad. On the other, I do care about the potentially unliveable lives we’re leaving for our grandkids. When I decided to check on our progress in limiting climate change, I discovered the news wasn’t good. But then I realised we’re not dead yet.
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