How many UK Productivity Puzzles are there?
I think that based on the evidence of economic history, the UK led the world in productivity growth from 1776 to roughly 100 years later. This leadership...
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Intangible Assets that Drive Disruptive Innovation
The nine categories of intangible assets used by economists are described below. Those highlighted in italics are difficult to measure for ONS. The most...
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Why do Intangible Assets drive Growth?
According to national income accounting in both the USA and UK the capital services charges of Intangible Assets are roughly equivalent to those of Tangible...
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The UK Productivity Puzzle
One of the first articles discussing the UK ‘productivity puzzle’ was published by the Bank of England (Batten et al, 2013) in a Quarterly Bulletin. This...
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How the US Productivity Program Won WW2
This brief article documents how the US Productivity Program was developed during WW2 to support the expansion of war production for the USA and its allies...
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The Marshall Plan: How the UK Fell Behind
Michael Hogan’s The Marshall Plan (2008) provides a rich historical view of the program which provided technical assistance and funding to the war-torn...
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Help Save the Hospitality Sector
The majority of sectors have had to deal with their challenges over the past 12 months, but few have had as bad as the hospitality and leisure industry...
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A Brief History of GDP & Productivity Reporting
The development of national GDP measurement and productivity reporting accelerated dramatically in WW2 and became standardised in the early 1950s by a...
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A Brief History of the Division of Labour
The Division of Labour stands as one of the founding theories of economics, and, over the last two and a half centuries since it was first published, has...
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Productivity Challenges and Solutions with Remote Working
Since the start of COVID 19, the numbers of people working from home has dramatically increased and we are seeing the demand for office space at the lowest...
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