If you’ve been paying attention to the economic news over the past couple of decades — we’re talking here about long-term trends, not cyclical shifts — you know that one of the great disappointments is the lackluster performance of productivity. You’ll recall that productivity is economists’ jargon for what most people call efficiency. Productivity gains are the ultimate source of ...

The e-commerce rebels are making their advance. Last October, Shopify Inc CEO Tobi Lutke said his company’s goal was to “arm the rebels” against the Amazon.com Inc empire. Since then, the mantra has become a rallying cry for Shopify’s employees and the merchant customers that use its e-commerce store software. And now, the business turmoil sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic ...

What sort of green stimulus does the world need? Technologies that reduce carbon emissions are one of the most effective targets for the trillions of dollars of spending tied to coronavirus relief programs, more than 200 central bankers, Group of 20 finance ministers and top academics concluded in a study. There are three sets of clean power technologies that policymakers ...