RX FOR PRODUCTIVITY: BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE. STANDING COMMITTEE ON PLANNING

A look is taken at the nation's productivity, showing how the drop in public capital stock began in 1968, five years prior to the productivity slump which occurred in 1973. The author agrees with the National Council on Public Works Improvement's suggested increase in spending for infrastructure of $90 to $100 billion and that upgrading and expanding the public capital stock will bring about an increase in the productivity level.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Selected Committee Meeting Papers presented at the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in Wichita, Kansas, December 5-6, 1988.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Aschauer, D A
• Conference:
  • American Assn of State Hwy & Transp Official Proc
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 109-116

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Expenditures; Infrastructure; Productivity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Total factor productivity
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00494705
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1990 12:00AM