Well since 85% of productivity of large companies is directly connected to intangibles and these companies are almost completely blind to the human qualities of what connects intangibles productivity : which you can test from 2 simple exercises in the top left column thread at www.valuetrue.com ... the chances of any growth - and when - are determined by when transparent corporate governance ushers in - and since that requires a mother of all benchmarking to make Baldrige quality gap's narrowing in the 80's look like child's play, I expect 2 years of deeper and deeper depression and social crisis are sadly on the cards before the vain bureaucracies unlearn
This incidentally was the modal prediction that came about through interviewing intangibles experts early in 2001 when Brookings published Unseen Wealth and the European Union published an equally strongly worded criticism of every blindness built into accounting monopolies built round last term's number and Speculator Value Analysis ...and the rest has been history tracking the future so to speak www.valuetrue.com Transparency Mapping co-author Maps that Change Our World (2003) http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html Preferred Future Histories ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex T Tabarrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11 October 2002 19:10 PM Subject: Krugman on productivity > Krugman finally gets back to economics and says something pretty smart > about productivity, unemployment and growth. > > http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/jobs.html > > Alex > > -- > Alexander Tabarrok > Department of Economics, MSN 1D3 > George Mason University > Fairfax, VA, 22030 > Tel. 703-993-2314 > > and > > Director of Research > The Independent Institute > 100 Swan Way > Oakland, CA, 94621 > Tel. 510-632-1366 > > > >
