The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War /
Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the ascent and descent of growth
- Part I. 1870-1940--The great inventions create a revolution inside and outside the home. The starting point: life and work in 1870
- What they ate and wore and where they bought it
- The American home: from dark and isolated to bright and networked
- Motors overtake horses and rail: inventions and incremental improvements
- From telegraph to talkies: information, communication, and entertainment
- Nasty, brutish, and short: illness and early death
- Working conditions on the job and at home
- Taking and mitigating risks: consumer credit, insurance, and the government
- Entr'acte. The midcentury shift from revolution to evolution
- Part II. 1940-2015--The Golden Age and the early warnings of slower growth. Fast food, synthetic fibers, and split-level subdivisions: the slowing transformation of food, clothing, and housing
- See the USA in your Chevrolet or from a plane flying high above
- Entertainment and communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone
- Computers and the internet from the mainframe to Facebook
- Antibiotics, CT scans, and the evolution of health and medicine
- Work, youth, and retirement at home and on the job
- Entr'acte. Toward an understanding of slower growth
- Part III. The sources of faster and slower growth. The great leap forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: what set of miracles created it?
- Innovation: can the future match the great inventions of the past?
- Inequality and the other headwinds: long-run American economic growth slows to a crawl
- Postscript: America's growth achievement and the path ahead.