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productivity

[proh-duhk-tiv-i-tee, prod-uhk-] / ˌproʊ dʌkˈtɪv ɪ ti, ˌprɒd ʌk- /


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The technology’s supporters say AI will revolutionize industries and drive a productivity boom that will power growth for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Hayes’s fund is implementing AI and it’s increasing productivity, but he is running open-weight models internally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Diffusion through the economy in a way that lifts productivity is key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Between 17 August and 16 September, Alfozan had reportedly asked a productivity AI assistant several questions about meeting rooms and their availability.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

That, in turn, allowed firms to meet a given level of demand by using more workers less intensively—at lower productivities.

From Economist ● Feb. 17, 2014

Over the long run, technology sets potential productivities, which govern the wages workers can earn.

From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2014

For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

For expository reasons we can take social subsistence and productivities as purely constant.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus


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