productivity

Shabbos whispers a quiet but profoundly countercultural truth: Your worth isn’t measured by your productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

“AI-driven drug discovery, clinical development and diagnostics are beginning to improve productivity across the sector, while life science tools appear to be emerging from a multiyear destocking cycle.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The EU insists the bloc must boost productivity and cut unemployment to offset the effects of a shrinking workforce.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

The SSA, which handles benefits for more than 75 million retirees, people with disabilities and dependents, said it made sweeping productivity gains.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

What is important is that shouting “Eureka!” is both enjoyable and a spur to productivity.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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 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

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

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