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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War

by Robert J. Gordon

How America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of un

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

784

ISBN

9780691175805