Title Productivity and prosperity : a historical sociology of productivist thought / Karen R. Foster.

Publication Info.	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Copyright page ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Discovery of Productivity; 2. Managing and Measuring Productivity; 3. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics; 4. The National Productivity Council; 5. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; 6. The Decline of Productivity?; Conclusion: Productivity's Future and the Limits of Growth ; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	In Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared.
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Subject	Industrial productivity -- Canada -- Case studies.
	Industrial productivity.
	Canada.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Industrial productivity -- Government policy -- Canada -- Case studies.
	Industrial productivity -- Government policy.
	Canada -- Economic policy -- Case studies.
	Economic policy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
ISBN	9781487511814 (electronic book)
	1487511817 (electronic book)
	9781487500788
	1487500785
	9781487520571
	1487520573