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BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gary S. Becker	The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Michael Mandel	Are You a Victim of 'Phantom' GDP? Here are four signs to help you determine whether your industry's output and productivity are being overstated.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Kiss It Good-Bye More demand and smaller productivity gains will boost payrolls.
BusinessWeek August 22, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Doubts About The Productivity Slowdown What's the Federal Reserve to do about widely differing measures of productivity?
IndustryWeek June 1, 2007 David Blanchard	The Face Of American Manufacturing The United States is the world's most productive country, but the global landscape has changed dramatically in recent years and even more changes are on the way.
BusinessWeek June 3, 2009 Michael Mandel	Growth: Why the Stats Are Misleading The BLS data miss crucial import-price shifts. When missing info is factored in, the U.S. economy over the past decade looks worse than we thought.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2010 Ed Salwin	Why the Stock Market Can Go Up Forever It's a thing called productivity.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Productivity Isn't The Villain -- It's The Hero While some may blame increased productivity for a loss of jobs, productivity will ultimately make things better for everyone.
IndustryWeek January 24, 2012 Jonathan Katz	Midsize Firms Choose Technology Over Hiring Executives attribute productivity increases to business process improvements and tech investments.
CIO May 15, 2001	The Great Debate: I.T. & Productivity Two sides of the heated debate over productivity increases due to information technology.
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Michael Mandel	The Real Threat Isn't Housing If productivity growth keeps sliding, a widespread crisis could be next.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Growth Will Get Over Its January Blahs Bad weather helped cause a weak start to what will be a solid year.
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Michael J. Mandel	Jobs: The Lull Will Linger Structural shifts across several key sectors make the robust job growth of the 1990s unlikely to return anytime soon. The current shortfall in job growth is heaviest in a few surprising sectors, such as retailing, education, health care and telecommunications.
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Seekers' Foe Is Also Their Best Hope Productivity is lifting incomes and that, eventually, will boost hiring.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2004 David Drickhamer	You Get What You Measure Manufacturers have been measuring productivity for a long time. You know what it means; you know what it looks like. Is it time to look a little deeper?
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 James Mehring	A Slower Speed Limit For The Economy? The second quarter produced solid economic growth, but there was also important news about revisions to real gross domestic product covering the past three years.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Signs Say: Job Growth Ahead Don't expect payrolls to turn around quickly, but economic trends are encouraging. Plus, heady productivity gains are not sustainable, and more workers will soon be needed.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Mandel, Green & Arndt	Will The Miracle Last? How long can the economy sustain its remarkable gains in productivity? Quite a while, say some leading economists
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: A Jobs Recovery, Yes. A Hiring Boom, No. Intense cost pressures and weak pricing will keep payrolls from surging
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: Why the Earnings Forecast Is Upbeat With productivity skyrocketing and labor costs plunging, profits will post strong growth in coming quarters now that demand is beginning to turn up.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Robert J. Barro	The Stubborn Jobless Rate: Puzzling, but Far from Scary The Dems say the labor market is the worst since the Depression. But the drop in jobs has been milder than in many other recessions.
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 James Mehring	The Housing Drag Casts A Long Shadow During 2006, productivity growth was the weakest in nine years, while the labor cost required to produce a given unit of a good or service surged. But don't fret too much: The data on productivity and unit labor costs are being skewed by the housing downturn.
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Paula De Masi	Who Has a New Economy? IMF staff and other economists are conducting research into whether the relationship between information and communications technologies and productivity growth extends to other major industrial countries besides the U.S. The evidence so far is mixed...
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Michael J. Mandel	So Where Are The Jobs? Maybe They're Not On The Way Continued weakness in the labor market raises the question of whether the link between job growth and gross-domestic-product growth, which economists have long accepted, has been broken.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans	Evans On The Economy -- More Jobs Will Be Lost What will happen to the U.S. economy as manufacturing employment continues to shrink? Manufacturing workers will be hurt, but not the U.S. economy generally.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Michael Mandel	The Real Cost Of Offshoring U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong
Wired April 2002 Chris Anderson	Creative Disruption Productivity rates usually fall in a recession. Not this time...
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	Productivity: Who Wins, Who Loses The U.S. is reaping big -- but uneven -- gains from its highly efficient workforce
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Michael Mandel	Bernanke's Dilemma The markets are clamoring for rate cuts, but weak U.S. productivity gains and strong global growth may limit the Fed's options.
HBS Working Knowledge July 7, 2003 Jim Heskett	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? We tend to think of improvement in the productivity of labor and capital like safety; one can't have too much of it. But is that always the case? Is the U.S. in fact experiencing untimely increases in productivity now?
CFO December 1, 2006 Edward Teach	A Productive Debate Significant or not, the gap between pay and productivity is a subject that won't go away, particularly now that control of Congress is passing to the labor-friendly Democratic Party.
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Fairlamb, Reinhardt & Cohn	Is Europe Suffering From Productivity Paralysis? Why can't Europe be more productive? That's a question investors, executives, and politicians are asking with increasing urgency.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Arndt & Aston	U.S. Factories: Falling Behind Why America's old-line industries are trailing in the global productivity stakes
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Growth That is Just Good Enough Despite a weak November, the labor market is giving a boost to the economy. November's hiring gains, while soft, were widespread across the economy.
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S: Can Productivity Keep Up The Good Work? U.S. productivity must stay on track with pay gains to hold inflation at bay.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Michael J. Mandel	Productivity Can Make Up The Gap Demographics will not mean doom if we focus on fostering innovation.
Reason July 2004 Brink Lindsey	10 Truths About Trade Is globalization sending the best American jobs overseas? Hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 Morgan Housel	Burnt-Out Workers Could Save the Economy What the fall in labor productivity means for our recovery.
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Peter Coy	Why One Economist Predicts Slow Growth Northwestern's Robert Gordon predicts the U.S. will soon be generating the slowest GDP growth per capita in its history.
Finance & Development March 2011 Lora & Pages	Face-to-Face with Productivity It is not lack of investment but inefficient production that holds back Latin American incomes.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Job Market Is Stronger Than It Looks Growth in other employment measures belies the weak payroll numbers
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2003	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? Readers Respond
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: Greater Expectations for Second-Half GDP Growth Economists are raising their second-half forecasts to 2% to 3%, a pace that would increase the chances for a sustainable economic recovery.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2010 Rich Smith	Picture of the Day: Those Lazy, Lazy Americans Part of yesterday's Dow Jones jump was surely due to the Fed squirting $600 billion worth of fiscal lighter fluid onto the fire. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics news didn't hurt either.
Inc. November 2005 Schramm & Litan	Seventeen Workers and $60 Million in Sales In the past 10 years, entrepreneurs have consolidated their position as the key drivers of radical change in America, bringing to market ever more sophisticated personal computers, operating systems, software, and, most recently, e-commerce.
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 James C. Cooper	So Where Are The Jobs? They're On The Way Are things really as bad as the latest employment data imply? Probably not. The fact is, the recent payroll data are giving the wrong impression of the strength of the labor markets. It has happened before, especially during the early stages of the recovery from the 1990-91 recession.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: This Time, Fed Tightening Shouldn't Make You Tense With jobs strong and inflation low, the economy is in fine shape
Fast Company August 2004 Ted Smalley Bowen	Found Money? If you take intangible assets into account, annual productivity could rise 1-2%. That's, well, just tangible enough to consider seriously.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Michael Mandel	Phantom GDP Meets Dark Matter Statistics aren't keeping up with changing patterns of trade and may not give us an accurate picture of the U.S. economy.
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Baily & Farrell	Breaking Down Barriers to Growth Encouraging competition is key to reviving stalled industrial economies.