Includes bibliographies and indexes.

I. Defining the productive society -- Productivity: concepts and measurement / Ellen Doree Rosen -- National productivity: a comparison perspective / Howard M. Leichter -- II. Stimulating human capital -- Public administration under pressure / Marc Ho lzer -- The private sector workplace / Daniel J.B. Mitchell -- III. Stimulating investment, research, and development -- Federal economic development investments / F. Stevens Redburn, Steve Godwin, Kathleen Peroff, and David Sears -- Investment subsidy programs in comparative perspective / Raymond M. Duch -- The innovation-productivity connection / Irwin Feller and Irene Johnston -- IV> Producing more productive organizations -- Private sector monopolies: the case of cable television franchises / Eli M. Noam -- Public sector monopolies / Jeffrey D. Straussman and Alexander Rosenberg -- Productivity improvement, management science, and policy evaluation / Stuart S. Nagel -- A systems approach to organizational productivity / Rupert F. Chisholm.