Ainda acerca da distribuição de produtividades

À atenção de Pires de Lima e Ferreira de Oliveira entre muitos:

"What came as something completely new to me was that if you looked at the same industry across countries, there were almost always dramatic differences in either labor productivity or total factor productivity. To my surprise, it turned out that most of the time, certainly more often than not, the difference in productivity - in the auto industry or the steel industry or the residential-construction industry in the US and in countries in Europe - was not only substantial but couldn’t seriously be explained by differences in access to technology.
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We also found that the productivity differences could not be traced to differences in access to investment capital.
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The MGI studies instead traced these differences in productivity to organizational differences, to the way tasks were allocated within a firm or a division—essentially, to failures in managerial decisions.
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The Quarterly: So management was the primary factor in productivity differences?.
Robert Solow: Yes, and there was another surprise, for which there was partly anecdotal, partly statistical evidence. If you asked why there were differences that could be erased or diminished by better management, the answer was that it took the spur of sharp competition to induce managers to do what they were in principle capable of doing. [Moi ici: O que é que Nietzche acerca das dificuldades que nos calham em sorte na vida? Podem fazer emergir o melhor de nós que estava imerso nas facilidades do dia-a-dia] So the idea that everybody is everywhere and always maximizing profits turned out to be not quite right."

Trechos retirados de "Prospects for growth: An interview with Robert Solow"