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

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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.
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