Best of Free Lunch: What The Heck Is Productivity, Anyway?

Peak Pals! We're re-airing some of our favourite episode of the Free Lunch podcast. today we're talking about productivity with William Huggins, a lecturer on corporate finance, economics, and statistics at the DeGroote School of Business, about: What productivity is and how we measure it. Why productivity matters for the economy. Why wages have become disconnected from productivity. Why Canada's productivity is lagging behind other developed countries. How some countries without many natural economic advantages have supercharged their productivity. What Canada can do to boost our productivity, and what it would mean for our economy.