Measured at the societal level, a range of political, social, and technological changes may cause economic and social advances, apart from the business effi ciencies that may be generated by a single executive or corporation. Th e economic growth and prosperity enjoyed by most OECD nations in the 1990s might just as easily be traced to other causes such as the “peace divi- dend” from the end of the cold war, increased computerization, the baby boom ensuring record high workforce participation, and the increasing globalization of world trade. Th ere seems no reason to attribute the global growth.
