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date: 19 March 2025

Productivity. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Jeremy AtackJeremy Atack

For any economic system, including that of the United States, productivity is the key to economic performance. Determining whether nations prosper or languish, productivity measures the rate at which factor inputs—land, labor, and capital—are transformed into output. The term “productivity” actually encompasses two separate but related concepts. “Total-factor productivity” refers to the relationship between ... ...

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