PRODUCTIVITY'S SECOND WIND

摘要

Is the productivity miracle that powered the New Economy gasping its last breath? It may have seemed so on Feb. 6, when the government was expected to report that productivity growth ground to a virtual halt in last year's fourth quarter. And plenty of people on Wall Street and in Corporate America have all but given up on seeing the rapid gains of productivity that the U. S. witnessed in the late 1990s.