The essential companion book to the Third evolution is the Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of Productivity Growth. This book describes and illustrates how productivity and technology have evolved and where it is evolving.

Productivity growth is the essential element in economic growth. Improvements in productivity and technology are driven by our increasing knowledge of the world around us. That can be as simple as learning to create chipped stone tools or creating the modern sciences of chemistry and physics to allow us to develop semiconductors. Since economic growth is dependent upon productivity growth, the ability to understand how and why productivity growth evolves is critical to understanding why our economy grows and where it is going in the future. The evolution of the economy is also critical to the evolution of our political organization.

The relationship between Science, Technology, Economics and Politics is what we call STEP Evolution. The ability to connect these four elements of the evolution of our society in a scientific manner allows us to finally make economics into a real science deeply embedded within the “hard” sciences of chemistry, physics, geology, etc. This is an important step forward for economics, which has been largely a collection of competing philosophies as opposed to a true science.

 The Illustrated Guide to Productivity Evolution (insert header and PDF of book)

 Video — Introduction to STEP Evolution (add header and insert video)

 Video — The Rules That Govern How Advances in Science Create Advances in Producitivity

 Video — How the Evolution of Our Economy Affects the Evolution of Our Political Organization

 Video — Improving Productivity in Healthcare, Education and Government Services Is the Key to Improving Productivity