Lagging productivity growth: Ceauses and remedies / Edited by Shlomo Maital, Noah M. Meltz ; contributors Hugh J. Arnold, Orley Ashenfelter, Donald J. Daly, Martin G. Evans, Randall K. Filer, Robert J. House, Charles Hulten, John W. Kendrick, John B. Kervin, Harvey Leibenstein, Jerome A. Mark, Mieko Nishimizu, John R. Norsworthy, Sylvia Ostry, P.S. Rao, Albert Rees, Frank Reid, John Vanderkamp and Leonard Waverman.

List of figures, ix -- List of tables, xi -- Preface, xv -- Acknowledgments, xvii -- Introduction. On interpreting productivity change / Albert Rees, 1 -- Part I: Trends, 7 -- Chapter 1. Productivity trends in the United States / John W. Kendrick ; comment: Jerome A. Mark and John R. Norsuiorthy, 9 -- Chapter 2. Productivity trends in Canada / Sylvia Ostry and P.S. Rao ; comment: Noah M. Meltz , 39 Part II: Causes and effects, 83 -- Chapter 3. The importance of productivity change in the economic growth of nine industrialized countries / Charles R. Hulten and Mieko Nishimizu ; comment: Orley Ashenfelter and Frank Reid, 85 -- Chapter 4. The downturn in productivity growth: a new look at its nature and causes / Randall k. Filer ; comment: Leonard Wauerman, 109 -- Part III: New approaches, 129 -- Chapter 5. Productivity: a psychological perspective / Hugh J. Arnold, Martin G. Evans and Robert J. House ; comment: John Kervin and Shlomo Maital, 131 -- Chapter 6. X-efficiency, intrafirm behavior, and growth / Harvey Leibenstein ; comment: Donald J. Daly, 199 -- Part IV: Remedies 221 Chapter 7. Remedies for increasing productivity levels in Canada / Donald j. Daly ; comment: John Vanderkamp and Mieko Nishimizu, 223 -- Chapter 8. Remedies for the productivity slowdown in the united states / John W. Kendrick 247 -- Summary and conclusions / Shlomo Maital and Noah M. Meltz, 265 -- Bibliography, 275 -- Index, 295 -- About the editors, 301 -- Participants, 303.