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The Productivity Podcast with Fexingo: Output, Efficiency, and Long-Term Economic Growth
For two centuries, productivity growth has been the engine of rising living standards, yet the past decade has seen a perplexing slowdown. In this show, Lucas and Luna examine the forces that drive — and inhibit — long-term economic output. Each episode focuses on a specific lever: from R&D investment and education reform to infrastructure spending and the diffusion of digital technologies. They avoid political rhetoric, instead grounding every discussion in historical data and named case studies — Japan's lost decade, Germany's Mittelstand, the post-2000 US productivity boom. Lucas, with his...
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Episodes
How One Factory Solved the Sticky Productivity Floor Problem 22.05.2026 10:50
Episode 4 of The Productivity Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine a real-world case study: how a Toyota transmission plant in Alabama eliminated the 'sticky floor' that traps teams below their own historical output average. Drawing on the 2019 paper 'The Persistence of Productivity Shocks' by Gibbons, Henderson, Repetto, and Serpa, they unpack why a plant's best month becomes its new minimum — and why...
Why Office Productivity Peaks at Four Days a Week 21.05.2026 9:21
Lucas and Luna dig into the real economics of the four-day workweek. Iceland's massive pilot program with 2,500 workers showed productivity held or improved across daycare, social services, and hospitals. The UK's 2023 trial with 61 companies reported revenue growth of 1.4 percent on average over the six-month test. But Lucas pushes back on the hype: not every industry can compress output into few...
The Solow Paradox Is Back with AI 21.05.2026 8:55
In the late 1980s, economist Robert Solow observed, 'You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.' That became known as the Solow Paradox. Now, with generative AI, we might be living through a sequel. Lucas and Luna dive into the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the McKinsey Global Institute to examine whether AI is actually showing up in productiv...
The $500 Million Productivity Bet That Changed Everything 19.05.2026 9:09
In the inaugural episode of The Productivity Podcast, hosts Lucas and Luna dive into a single, defining moment in economic history: the 1995-2005 productivity boom driven by corporate IT investment. They zero in on one company—Walmart—and one specific decision: the $500 million investment in its retail-link supply chain system in the early 1990s. Lucas explains how that bet reshaped not just Walma...
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