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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
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Robert J. Gordon
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December 31 2016
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Princeton University Press
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December 31 2016
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10.1515/9781400873302
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. ix
Preface
pp. vii
Contents
pp. 1
1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth
pp. 27
2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870
pp. 62
3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It
pp. 94
4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked
pp. 129
5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements
pp. 172
6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment
pp. 206
7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death
pp. 247
8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home
pp. 288
9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government
pp. 319
Entr’acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution
pp. 331
10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing
pp. 374
11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above
pp. 409
12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone
pp. 441
13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook
pp. 461
14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine
pp. 498
15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job
pp. 522
Entr’acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth
pp. 535
16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It?
pp. 566
17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past?
pp. 605
18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl
pp. 641
Postscript: America’s Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead
pp. 653
Acknowledgments
pp. 657
Data Appendix
pp. 667
Notes
pp. 717
References
pp. 741
Credits
pp. 745
Index
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