Productivity and the Worth of Work in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy. Productivity is a measure of efficiency, tending to focus on the relationship between inputs (number of workers or hours worked) and outputs (units of product or service produced). Boosting productivity can raise wages and profits, lower prices, and generate more tax revenue for governments. It can also improve living standards for a worker, a firm, or a nation. On this account, taking steps to boost productivity seems to approximate a moral and political imperative. Yet productivity […]