The Rise and Fall of American Growth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2026
- 美国
- 经济史
- 经济学
- 历史
- 经济
- 社会-经济史
- 英文原版
- 美国研究
- 经济史
- 美国
- 增长理论
- 历史变迁
- 宏观经济学
- 社会发展
- 产业演变
- 资本主义
- 政策分析
- 繁荣与衰退
具体描述
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 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end?
Gordon challenges the view that economic growth can or will continue unabated, and he demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 can't be repeated. He contends that the nation's productivity growth, which has already slowed to a crawl, will be further held back by the vexing headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government. Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.
A critical voice in the debates over economic stagnation, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
作者简介
Robert J. Gordon is the Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences at Northwestern University. His books include Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment and Macroeconomics. Gordon was included in the 2013 Bloomberg list of the nation's most influential thinkers.
目录信息
1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth 1
PART I. 1870-1940-THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME 25
2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 27
3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It 62
4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked 94
5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements 129
6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment 172
7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death 206
8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home 247
9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government 288
Entr'acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution 319
PART II. 1940-2015-THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH 329
10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing 331
11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above 374
12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone 409
13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook 441
14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine 461
15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job 498
Entr'acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth 522
PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH 533
16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? 535
17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? 566
18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl 605
Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead 641
Acknowledgments 653 Data Appendix 657 Notes 667
References 717 Credits 741 Index 745
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在《理性客观派》之后，这本书让我对未来有一点淡淡的担忧。也许，我们的第一个黄金时代已经过去，而下一个黄金时代还不知道什么时候才会来。
评分读了基本论点，大致了解美国社会基本发展情况。不得不感慨，穿越个啥啊，生活在现代世界的我们如果穿越回古代，脱离了工业社会的种种便利，根本就是废柴。
评分一部悲观现实主义美国经济学史 美国经济遇到的很多问题，分析这些问题，不仅仅对美国人有意义，整个全球经济都可能会遇到相似的挑战。那么回顾美国增长的起落，对我们有什么启示？如果美国经济增速放缓，意味着中国的经济增速早晚也会放缓，因为我们也会遇到相似的“顶头风”。狂飙突进的高速经济增长时代已经一去不复返了，再去追求过高的经济增长速度，已经没有任何意义。我们已经跑完了400米跨栏，现在比的是跑马拉松。不能再按照跑跨栏的节奏参加比赛了，未来的竞赛，比的是耐力和毅力，更重要的是要保持长期、稳定、持续和平衡的经济发展。
评分一部悲观现实主义美国经济学史 美国经济遇到的很多问题，分析这些问题，不仅仅对美国人有意义，整个全球经济都可能会遇到相似的挑战。那么回顾美国增长的起落，对我们有什么启示？如果美国经济增速放缓，意味着中国的经济增速早晚也会放缓，因为我们也会遇到相似的“顶头风”。狂飙突进的高速经济增长时代已经一去不复返了，再去追求过高的经济增长速度，已经没有任何意义。我们已经跑完了400米跨栏，现在比的是跑马拉松。不能再按照跑跨栏的节奏参加比赛了，未来的竞赛，比的是耐力和毅力，更重要的是要保持长期、稳定、持续和平衡的经济发展。
评分"The I.T. revolution is less important than any one of the five Great Inventions that powered economic growth from 1870 to 1970: electricity, urban sanitation, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, the internal combustion engine and modern communication."
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