What's Stifling Pay Raises Is Also Curbing Economic Growth

What's Stifling Pay Raises Is Also Curbing Economic GrowthThe Matt Townsend Show • Season 7, Episode 10, Segment 1

Jan 11, 2018 • 48m

Ryan Avent is a senior editor and the Free exchange columnist at The Economist. He previously served as The Economist’s news editor, as an economics correspondent, and as online economics editor. He is also the author of The Wealth of Humans. Is our economy as productive as it was 20 years ago? Do the economy and our workforce continue to become more and more productive as time goes on? Ryan Avent talks about how a lack of productivity could be affecting both pay raises and curbing economic growth.

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