#productivity

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#could #going #growth #happening #inflation

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. ↗

— Jack Welch

#forever #hard #idea #keeps #now

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ↗

— Jack Welch

#brains #bring #challenges #combination #compared

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#anything #been #brutal #education #fueled

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #china #collective #come #continuing

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#improving #increase #just #key #looking

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. ↗

— Roy Romer

#classroom #critical #experience #faculty #getting

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#defeat #economic #economic problems #election #factor