Brain for Business

Series 1, Episode 14: Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century? With Professor John Quiggin, The University of Queensland

18 Nov 2020

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In a recent article in The Conversation, Professor John Quiggin of the University of Queensland asserted that the Covid-19 pandemic might just have helped us to stumble on the biggest productivity increase of the century. But is this really the case? And if so, what are the longer term implications for societies, most particularly when the threat of the pandemic recedes?John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and a Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.His work has been acknowledged globally, and in October 2020 Professor Quiggin was named the 20th most influential economist in the world.A prolific author and blogger, Professor Quiggin's most recent book, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, was published by Princeton University Press in April 2019.The original article in The Conversation is available here: https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104Professor Quiggin blogs regularly at https://johnquiggin.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Series 1, Episode 14: Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century? With Professor John Quiggin, The University of Queensland

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