The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War / Robert J. G...
The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War / Robert J. G...
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 : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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G 2016/182
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English
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Physical content
xii, 762 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2016]
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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.
"In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 gr...
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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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The Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-743) and index.
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G 2016/182
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74VKzKLLrKkO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzKLLrKkO
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0691147728 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780691147727 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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339.420973
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991023405759702626
