Societal productivity affects every policy problem, including defence, inflation/unemployment, crime, civil liberties, and health. Dealing with productivity in terms of the key elements of land, labour, capital, management, and organization, Holzer and Nagel have collected essays that define key questions or considerations, explore the subtleties of derivative productivity improvement programmes, and offer conclusions as to pragmatic policy development and implementation.
`This is a volume that both documents the present heightened concern for productivity and points the way toward innovative analytic perspectives and practical strategies.′ -- The American Political Science Review, Vol. 79 1985
Stuart S. Nagel was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was secretary-treasurer and publications coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization and coordinator of the Dirksen-Stevenson Institute and the MKM Research Center. He held a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. in law, both from Northwestern University. His major awards include fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Social Science Council, East-West Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His previous positions include being an attorney to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Legal Services Corporation. He has been a professor at the University of Arizona and Penn State University.