PM thinks he’s working wonders on productivity front. He’s not. We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Improving the economy’s productivity is so central to lifting our material standard of living that politicians and big business people talk about it unceasingly. But the funny thing is, most of what they say makes little sense. But first, let’s be sure we know what “productivity” means. It may be that politicians and business people get away with talking so much nonsense on the subject because so many of us