Only the state can deal with looming problems in productivity, regional imbalance, energy, climate change, automation, reskilling.
Snap and his calculus tutor appeared to solve a tricky problem in mill productivity.
We're trying to inflate our way out of a problem without investing in productivity.
Next, it is found that group-based reward is not only less efficient than individual-based reward, but it also subject to a potential productivity problem, in which workers with more productive knowledge do not participate in knowledge sharing.
But today, I'd like to explore a different problem: the significant downshift in productivity growth.
Of course, the real problem with slowing down in productivity means that Blume is still largely defined by books she wrote 40 years ago, and only occasionally does she show weariness with this, wincing a little when I refer to "Ralph", the name a teenage boy memorably gives his penis in Forever.
The problem is that the pickup in productivity tends to create even greater increases in aggregate demand than in potential aggregate supply.
Charles Cotton, pay and reward adviser at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, said that the biggest problem in the workforce is productivity.
Philip Hammond, the chancellor, outlined Britain's productivity problem in stark terms in the autumn statement by saying it took a British worker five days to produce something that their German counterpart could do in four.
"We can't get away from the fact there is a £20bn productivity problem in the NHS over the course of the next five or 10 years and ultimately we need to meet what is growing demand at a time in which the resources available to the NHS are flat".
