Talk:Productivity

This Page Breaks The Philosophy Rule

Thought you ought to know. 72.73.46.78 (talk) 03:09, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Saari

this article has most references to Saari. isn't there more diverse literature on the subject? 216.80.119.92 (talk) 14:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Increases in productivity

This section asserts 'Many economists see the economic expansion of the later 1990s in the United States as being allowed by the massive increase in worker productivity that occurred during that period.' But as stated in a pos from Paul Krugman (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/reconsidering-a-miracle/) "... properly measured, the productivity gap between America and Europe never happened." More references in Krugman's post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.98.62.150 (talk) 15:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Productivity per person

I'm not an expert in economics, but I believe productivity per person is an especially important metric. If it is important, then maybe someone could add specific information about it.74.195.16.39 (talk) 11:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Can someone rewrite this?

This article is not written in encyclopedic style, and is not very good for such an important economic topic. Nowhere in an encyclopedia should you ever read, "The next step is..." --68.195.44.36 (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

The concept "productivity" is defined in this article by the measuring operations used. To operationally define basic concepts has now become central to all sciences, not only to physics. Operationalization is the process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable in form of variables consisting of specific observations. Like all processes operationalization of the concept "productivity" can be best desribed as a step by step process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.27.58.10 (talk) 09:50, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

"Stuff"

Under the Section "Economic growth and productivity", i found this, " various material inputs (stuff) and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how)". I think that "stuff" is not the right word and i have deleted it. 175.138.253.226 (talk) 13:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

So how is this article supposed to enable someone to understand economic statistics?

Nowhere in this article do I see any description of how official productivity statistics are derived. There is no discussion of intermediate goods, net, gross or the treatment of government outlays such as national defense or infrastructure spending, to name a few missing topics.

The discussion of productivity given in Productivity Trends in the United States Kendrick (1961) goes into this in detail and I was hoping to find an updated summary here.Phmoreno (talk) 03:33, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

History

Which economist is generally recognized as the one who recognized the economic impact of Productivity? Bcwilmot (talk) 05:03, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a question and answer blog. See: Yahoo answers.

Productivity in practice

I'm planning to add a short section about productivity at the plant level. It will include measurement and tracking, new methods and technologies.Phmoreno (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Too abstract and theoretical

This is one of the most abstract, theoretical articles on Wikipedia. From reading it you would never realize that companies routinely measure productivity and have for over 100 years. Also, there is no mention of economic statistics on productivity. Most of what is here is just plain worthless.Phmoreno (talk) 13:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Focuses too much on one method and ignores others

Again, this article is too narrowly focused. There is still no definition of productivity as used in macro-economics (cost based and uses value added at each step of the production process to net out the contribution of semi-finished goods).

Other methods include system modeling. These may be anything from an Ishikawa diagram to process simulation. These methods are commonly used for problem solving, identifying and removing production constraints, and designing new processes. I personally spent years using these techniques.Phmoreno (talk) 14:16, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Some notes

• Productivity is a very abstract and difficult phenomenon and concept.
• The purpose of this article is to operationalize the concept productivity, i.e. to define it as a measureable and understandable phenomenon and quantity.
• The purpose of the article is not to discuss productivity development methods (tools). They deserve the own main article “Productivity development methods (tools)”. Go ahead and write it.
• Two main productivity measures of macroeconomics and official statistics are presented. If more is wanted, go ahead.
• Productivity theory of macroeconomics is discussed in the work Hulten 2009.

Sepsaar (talk) 15:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)