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Our ability to produce manufactured goods has very little to do with our ability to build infrastructure. Construction productivity in the U.S. is actually DRO
by droro 9y ago
Our ability to produce manufactured goods has very little to do with our ability to build infrastructure.
Construction productivity in the U.S. is actually DROPPING:
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-17 https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-...
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf...
http://harvardcgbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wang_2Pager_Productivity-US-Construction-Industry.pdf http://harvardcgbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wang_2Page...
- maxerickson 9y agoRight, but per worker productivity in the construction industry isn't a growth limit (the claim I was addressing), it is something else.