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What if we measured the thing that matters most: carbon productivity

  • Written by David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
What if we measured the thing that matters most: carbon productivityCarbon productivity is the measure that matters, but we are hung up on the productivity of our workers.pixabay/pexels

Ask any economist a question, and you will usually get the answer: “productivity”.

The winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman, set the standard in 1994:

Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the...

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