The productivity paradox

icts, knowledge and the labor market

Nico Stehr

pp. 243-259

in: Marian T. Adolf (ed), Nico Stehr, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

When it comes to the economic affluence of a nation and the ability of a country's economy to improve the standard of living of its citizens and compete internationally, social scientists are in an unusual agreement that productivity "in the long run is almost everything".