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How a Tiny Swiss Village Beat the National Productivity Slump
Switzerland's productivity growth has been slowing for two decades. But one village in the canton of Graubünden, a remote alpine community called Vrin, posted productivity gains of over 3 percent per year for 15 straight years — more than double the national average. This episode digs into the unlikely source: a cooperative timber-and-construction model that rebuilt the local economy around a single, hyper-efficient value chain. Lucas and Luna walk through the numbers, the cooperative structure, and what Vrin's example says about bottom-up productivity fixes in an era of stagnation…
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