The Rise and Fall of American Growth
description: a non-fiction book by Robert J. Gordon, an American professor of economics at Northwestern University
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words
Gropper. Oil on canvas, 1939. Jacket design: Faceout Studio, Kara Davison All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gordon, Robert J., author. The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War / Robert J. Gordon. pages cm. — (The Princeton economic history of the
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is arbitrary and is made because it falls roughly halfway between 1870 and 2015. A central theme of this book, as suggested by its title The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is that the pace of progress sped up in one era and slowed down in a subsequent era. Figure 1–1
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else, it is this sharp decline between 1999 and 2014 in trend growth of output per person that lies behind the title of this book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth. During the decade 2004–2014, the negative growth rate of hours per person was relatively flat at a rate of about
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ups and downs of the business cycle. Because the basic data are unambiguous in registering a significant and deepening growth slowdown, the book’s title, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, has become a statement of fact. We are now ready in part III to explore some of the reasons why growth
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Source: Data underlying Table 18–4. Postscript AMERICA’S GROWTH ACHIEVEMENT AND THE PATH AHEAD DECLINING GROWTH: INNOVATION AND THE HEADWINDS This book’s title, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, might seem to imply a sense of success followed by failure, but that is not the message to be conveyed. What
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Web, search engines, e-commerce, and smartphones and tablets. The timing of the stream of innovations before and after 1970 is the fundamental cause of the rise and fall of American growth. In recent years, further downward pressure on the growth rate has emerged from the four headwinds that are slowly strangling the
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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
by Arthur Turrell · 2 Aug 2021 · 297pp · 84,447 words
N. Conklin-Brittain, “Cooking as a Biological Trait,” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 136 (2003): 35–46. 4. R. J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2016). 5. BP, Statistical Review of World Energy 2020
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols · 25 Sep 2017 · 391pp · 71,600 words
ratio of consumption to creation. Nonetheless, Wall Street has put a lot of value recently on these consumption technologies. Robert Gordon’s recent economic treatise, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, has as its central thesis that some inventions are more important than others. I agree, and I would put today’s
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Hyderabad to Redmond Cornet, Manu. “Organizational Charts.” Bonkers World, June 27, 2011. Accessed December 8, 2016. http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/. Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Widmer, Ted. “The Immigration Dividend
The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)
by Michael R. Strain · 25 Feb 2020 · 98pp · 27,609 words
want to take up too much space demonstrating the obvious in this short book, but here are some additional datums taken from two recent books, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by the economist Robert Gordon, and Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker.: Improvements in heart attack survival rates from 1984 to 1998
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in US family finances from 2013 to 2016: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, 103 (2017): 1. 28.Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War. Vol. 70. Princeton University Press, 2017, 484. 29.Gordon, 464. 30.Centers
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. Goodhart, C.A.E., 1975, ‘Problems of Monetary Management: The U.K. Experience’, Papers in Monetary Economics (1). Gordon, Robert, 2016, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Gould, S., 2003, The Hedgehog, the Fox
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne · 9 Sep 2019 · 482pp · 121,173 words
, August 22, 1962, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10532517/pettet_zellmer_r_22_aug_1962/. Back to note reference 21. Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 60. Back to note reference
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words
(20 March 2017), https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/robot-geome- try-very-wonkish, archived at https://perma.cc/KGF7-YKRS; Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press 2016). 71. Uber contests these allegations: Mike Isaac, ‘How Uber deceives the authorities worldwide’, The New York Times
Men Without Work
by Nicholas Eberstadt · 4 Sep 2016 · 126pp · 37,081 words
and Proceedings 104, no. 5: 50–55. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/rogoff/files/aer_104-5_50-55.pdf. 5.Cf. Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016); see for example, Lawrence H
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words
digital revolution is delivering less than 2 percent growth and increasing inequality in the developed world. As economist Paul Krugman notes, reviewing Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, “Gordon suggests that the future is all too likely to be
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investments, which might take years to show results. The second question we need to ask is posed by the economist Robert Gordon in his book The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Gordon argues that the hype around the technology revolution is overdone and that digital services are less important to productivity than
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, 2015). This is a really good primer from a media activist and scholar who has been fighting media monopoly for twenty-five years. Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016). This is the great antidote to digital utopians. Gordon’s well-researched text shows that the
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market
by Paul de Grauwe and Anna Asbury · 12 Mar 2017
year. Since then growth has dropped to less than . per cent per year. So far the digital revolution { See Robert Gordon’s fascinating recent book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ). T HE U TO PIA OF SE
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