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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...
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The Motley Fool November 3, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Know Your Numbers: Productivity Productivity figures released by the BLS provide a rare look at the quality of economic activity within the economy. Keeping track of changes in productivity levels can give you an indication of the sustainability of economic growth that other types of economic data can't duplicate.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 March 19, 2007 Michael Mandel	The Real Threat Isn't Housing If productivity growth keeps sliding, a widespread crisis could be next.
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 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?
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	Productivity: Who Wins, Who Loses The U.S. is reaping big -- but uneven -- gains from its highly efficient workforce
BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 Rich Miller	Workers May Be Slowing To A Trot Productivity growth is not as robust - and that could mean more interest-rate hikes.
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 May 14, 2009 Michael Mandel	Why Rising Productivity Is Cause for Worry The numbers may indicate that companies are shedding professionals - and that can undercut growth in the long term.
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 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.
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Rich Miller	The Economy: Why It's Not Deja Vu Wall Street is worried about '70s-style stagflation, but the Federal Reserve is counting on productivity to keep the threat at bay.
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.
Wired April 2002 Chris Anderson	Creative Disruption Productivity rates usually fall in a recession. Not this time...
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 April 2, 2007 James C. Cooper	U.S.: Say Goodbye To High Growth And Low Inflation The economic Eden of the late 1990s and early 2000s is slowly fading.
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
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.
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
Reason June 2004 Charles Oliver	That Old New Economy A leftist tries to make sense of the '90s boom in the book, After the New Economy.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Bruce Nussbaum	The You-Asked-For-It Economy Low inflation, soaring productivity, and a capitalist China. Why aren't we happy?
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.
Reason July 2004 Brink Lindsey	10 Truths About Trade Is globalization sending the best American jobs overseas? Hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Michael J. Mandel	Productivity Can Make Up The Gap Demographics will not mean doom if we focus on fostering innovation.
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 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.
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.
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2003	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? Readers Respond
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.
BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Deja Vu All over Again But unlike the early '90s, hiring now will take longer to turn around
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Speed Bumps On The Road To More Jobs American businesses face powerful reasons not to hire
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 James C. Cooper	U.S.: Strong Labor Markets Put The Fed On The Spot Weak productivity and rising labor costs could force more rate hikes.
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Michael J. Mandel	Where Wealth Lives The productivity boom has made asset owners rich -- and left many wage-earners behind.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	The Price Of Efficiency Stop blaming outsourcing. The drive for productivity gains is the real culprit behind anemic job growth
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?
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Catherine L. Mann	Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? The U.S. current account deficit, driven by the United States' widening trade deficit, is the largest it has ever been, both as a share of the U.S. economy and in dollar terms. How much longer can the United States continue to spend more than it earns and support the resumption of global growth?
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Weak Payrolls Mask A Tightening Job Market How companies handle rising labor costs will affect future inflation.
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Rich Miller	What Keeps Greenspan Up At Night The Fed chairman must fend off the threat of inflation without stealing momentum from the recovery. Can he walk that fine line?
CIO April 15, 2006 Ben Worthen	Credit Where Credit Is Due Productivity has been increasing steadily for years and CIOs think IT deserves a lot of the credit. But proving that hasn't been easy. That's where MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson comes in.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	Where Are The Jobs? Economic growth is very strong, but America isn't generating enough jobs. Many blame outsourcing. The truth is a lot more complicated
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Those Soft Job Numbers: Cause For Alarm? Probably not -- business is still spending, and not all the data are so gloomy
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003	China Can Help the U.S. Tackle Its Social Security Crisis Much has been written about the looming pension crisis in the U.S., Europe and Japan, whose populations are aging. Wharton finance professor Jeremy J. Siegel argues that economic growth in China and the rest of the developing world holds the key to dealing with the impending crunch.
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Coming Battle Between Profits And Prices Pricing power is rising, but so are costs, and that will soon squeeze margins.
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.