Growth and productivity : are they obsolete concepts ?

• Jean GADREY
  Professor, University of Lille I
  

Summary

The concepts of growth and productivity, such as they are, have technical and historical limitations. They are well adapted to a certain method of production and consumption which they have inherited from Fordism. They are still useful and interesting in the so-called 'post-Ford' economy characterised by the growing domination of tertiary activities. However, these tools ought to be put into perspective, completed and, in certain cases, abandoned with no regrets.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Thomas PARIS.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 9.