Episode Details

Peak Pals! We're re-airing some of our favourite episode of the Free Lunch podcast. today we're talking about productivity with William Huggins, a lecturer on corporate finance, economics, and statistics at the DeGroote School of Business, about:

• What productivity is and how we measure it.
• Why productivity matters for the economy.
• Why wages have become disconnected from productivity.
• Why Canada's productivity is lagging behind other developed countries.
• How some countries without many natural economic advantages have supercharged their productivity.
• What Canada can do to boost our productivity, and what it would mean for our economy.