Productivity and Wages https://cognitivepolitics.org/ en Do low wages lead to high productivity? https://cognitivepolitics.org/issues/do-low-wages-lead-high-productivity <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--issues.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--issues.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span>Do low wages lead to high productivity?</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--issues.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--issues.html.twig * field--body.html.twig x field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <div class="text-content clearfix field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>United States history is a giant test of high and low-wages on economic growth.  In the north, unlike in Europe, the frontier acted much like a natural version of a minimum wage law: if employers couldn't pay to make the job as good as risking your life on the frontier, employees could leave, so wages were higher than any competitor.  By the economic theory that higher wages for the front-line workers should mean fewer business opportunities, the northeastern United States should have entered the 20th century an economic backwater unable to compete with Europe, and the low-wage slave-and-im</p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--issues.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--issues.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/stephen" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--issues.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--issues.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>Mon, 06/01/2015 - 18:48</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-issue--issues.html.twig * field--node--field-issue.html.twig * field--node--issues.html.twig * field--field-issue.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Issue</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/issues/productivity-and-wages" hreflang="en">Productivity and Wages</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <ul class="links inline"> <li><a href="/issues/do-low-wages-lead-high-productivity" rel="tag" title="Do low wages lead to high productivity?" hreflang="und">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Do low wages lead to high productivity?</span></a></li> <li><a href="/issues/do-low-wages-lead-high-productivity#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="node/13" hreflang="und">Comments</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/olivero/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:48:13 +0000 Stephen 13 at https://cognitivepolitics.org