Table of Contents:
  • I. Defining the productive society
  • Productivity: concepts and measurement / Ellen Doree Rosen
  • National productivity: a comparison perspective / Howard M. Leichter
  • II. Stimulating human capital
  • Public administration under pressure / Marc Holzer
  • The private sector workplace / Daniel J.B. Mitchell
  • III. Stimulating investment, research, and development
  • Federal economic development investments / F. Stevens Redburn, Steve Godwin, Kathleen Peroff, and David Sears
  • Investment subsidy programs in comparative perspective / Raymond M. Duch
  • The innovation-productivity connection / Irwin Feller and Irene Johnston
  • IV> Producing more productive organizations
  • Private sector monopolies: the case of cable television franchises / Eli M. Noam
  • Public sector monopolies / Jeffrey D. Straussman and Alexander Rosenberg
  • Productivity improvement, management science, and policy evaluation / Stuart S. Nagel
  • A systems approach to organizational productivity / Rupert F. Chisholm.