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WW Norton & Co The Productive Edge by LESTER R.K
Compared to the early 1990s, when concerns about the global "competitiveness" of US industries reached an anxiety-laden peak, the later years of the 1990s have looked much better. But the overall rate of productivity growth has been stuck at a low level since the 1970s, leaving many Americans with little or no improvement in their living standards. Recently, however, significant new productivity gains have been reported in important industries. In this book, an authority on this issue searches five recent success stories for clues on shaping new strategy for economic growth. These reports point to a new agenda for growth, tailored to the volatile, unpredictable conditions that will persist in the American economy for the foreseeable future. At the heart of the agenda is a proposal for a "new economic citizenship" - a new view of the rights, responsibilities and resources that shoud be accorded to those who will contribute their ideas and labour to the new century.