productivity curve

That gives you an idea of how basically we have not kept up in the productivity curve.

And as it happens, our productivity curves do not appear to crash to zero.

Past that point the productivity curve decreases.

In 2003, in an article in the Journal of Research in Personality, he claimed to show that scientists generally made their biggest discoveries before their mid-30s, and compared this productivity curve to that of criminals.

I think we're going to see more of that in the U.S. economy because pay rates over the past five years have now been squeezed so that they are running below the productivity curve and economic theory suggests that workers should be paid their marginal productivity contribution.