The productivity puzzle: How can we speed up the growth of the economy?

On September 9, 2016 the Initiative on Business and Public Policy and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings hosted a forum on the policy implications of the growth slowdown.

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After continued productivity growth between 1800 and 2000, we are in a period of weak productivity growth for the middle class.
The least gains are captured through the tax, by civil servants and the military for them maintain their standard of living and ambitions.
like agriculture, it is the turn of industry and services to be operated by 20 or 30% of the population, not so much .
For others, 1000 dollars per month and 95% time in the virtual world.
to maintain a joy of "living together" it is necessary to forbid that a public job is occupied more than 10 years by the same citizen.(health, safety (police, fire) education employment in municipalities)