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The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War / Robert J. Gordon.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2016]

9780691147727 (hc.)

Princeton economic history of the Western world.

xii, 762 p. : 25 cm.

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 -- Data Appendix.

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