This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the United States conducted by the authors a

Emerging from the ruins of the Second World War, the Japanese economy has grown at double-digit rate throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, and, when the oil c

Case studies of U.S. industrial performance show how recent gains in productivity in key sectors can serve as models for renewed growth in the economy as a whol