Karen R Foster

Productivity and Prosperity

A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

In Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781487520571
• ISBN-10: 1487520573
• Artikelnr.: 45059167

Autorenporträt

Karen Foster is Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Discovery of Productivity
2. Managing and Measuring Productivity
3. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
4. The National Productivity Council
5. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
6. The Decline of Productivity?
7. Conclusion: Productivity’s Future and the Limits of Growth
Bibliography
Notes