Throughout the developed world, productivity growth has been remarkably weak. Even though we are faced daily with new technological gizmos, growth in output per hour has been dismal. Admittedly, some countries have done better than others. Between 2007 and 2014 — the latest year for which comparable data are available — output per hour rose over 7 per cent across the US economy while in the UK it was broadly unchanged and in Italy it actually fell 2 per cent.
在整個發(fā)達(dá)世界,生產(chǎn)率增長都非常疲軟。即便我們天天都能看到科技界的新發(fā)明,每小時產(chǎn)出的增長卻令人失望。無可否認(rèn),部分國家的表現(xiàn)比其他國家好一些。從2007年到2014年(這是有可比數(shù)據(jù)的最近年份),美國的每小時產(chǎn)出增長逾7%,而英國大體上沒什么變化,意大利更是下滑了2%。