Productivity Analysis: A Search for Definition and Order

In the 1972 Public Administration Review symposium on government productivity, Edward K. Hamilton commented that: null public is now assailed by more irrelevant facts, half facts, and non-facts on this subject than on any issue in public affairs. ' It would be comforting to report that in the intervening five years issues have been clarified, concepts uniformly defined, academics and practitioners have come to agreement, and productivity...