So the next billion people when they look at productivity they will think that Google Docs and Google Apps would be their productivity.
But if the quality of the hamburgers improved, that would be a productivity gain and statisticians would try to capture the improvement in the official figures.
Other would-be productivity app rivals like Evernote years ago incorporated the idea of having a single identity for yourself that can be used to access and interact with business and personal documents in its app.
Without school closure, the total health care costs would be $21 million, $29 million and $33 million, productivity losses due to mortality would be $313 million, $428 million and $480 million and productivity losses due to morbidity $102 million, $139 million and $155 million, for basic reproductive numbers of 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 (Tables 3, 4 and 5).
If an increase in the scale of production were to increase overall productivity, there would be too little product to remunerate all factors according to their marginal productivities; likewise, under diminishing returns to scale, the product would be more than enough to remunerate all factors according to their marginal productivities.
In any event, it would be odd if productivity growth were accelerating after six years of economic expansion.
A surge propelled by the costs of extraction would be a negative productivity shock for the global economy.
The market "is just taking a breather," said Steven M. Frenkel, chief investment strategist at Ladenburg Thalmann, citing what he believed would be ever-larger productivity gains ahead for the American economy.
He added that if all organisations were to integrate health into their practices, there would be greater workplace productivity, better performance in schools and more sustainable cities. Things are starting to get better.
District Council 37, the traditional trendsetter for all the city's municipal unions, had agreed that all the raises in the contract's third year would be financed by productivity increases.
In the United States and several European countries, even before the start of the financial crisis, income inequality meant that real incomes were growing by less than would be justified by productivity gains, pushing households to borrow to fund consumption.
