Inequality can be alleviated and productivity growth…

“Unlike IR #2, the digital revolution IR #3 had a less powerful overall effect on productivity growth, and the main effect of its inventions…

— Robert J. Gordon

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological…

— William E. Simon

Investments, for example, in early childhood and in our children return enormous dividends in terms of their own academic success, reduced cost in the…

— Brian Deese

Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

— Joseph Stiglitz

In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy that stimulates…

— Elvira Nabiullina

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

— Mario Draghi

“To become a developed country, therefore, India’s GDP will have to grow at 12 per cent per year for at least a decade. Technically…

— Anonymous

“No matter how rich or poor we are, each of us gets twenty-four hours in a day. In order to consume YouTube, Facebook, or…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“Knowledge and skill diffusion is the key to overall productivity growth as well as the reduction of inequality both within and between countries.”

— Thomas Piketty

I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely…

— Laurence Meyer

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very…

— Janet Yellen

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement…

— Janet Yellen

Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater scope to…

— Janet Yellen

My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to…

— Janet Yellen

“If the stock market continues to advance, we know that inequality will increase, for capital gains on equities accrue disproportionately to the top income…

— Robert J. Gordon