![]() ![]() There are brief interludes (“Entre’acte”) between parts, a Postscript, and a detailed Data Appendix.Ĭhapter 1 is an overview of the focus, approach, and structure of the book. Part Three (chapters 16-18) provides explanations and offers predictions up through 2040. transportation appears after housing in both parts). Part Two (chapters 10-15) does the same from 1940 to the present, maintaining the same relative order of topics (e.g. Part One (chapters 2-9) examines various components of the standard of living, in levels and changes from 1870 to 1940. The Rise and Fall of American Growth is divided into three parts. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences at Northwestern University, needs no introduction, having long been one of the most famous macroeconomists on planet Earth. It tackles a grand subject, the productivity slowdown, by placing the slowdown in the context of the historical evolution of the American standard of living. ![]() By any metric, Robert Gordon’s new tome qualifies. This is the age of blockbuster books in economics. Margo, Department of Economics, Boston University. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. ![]() ![]() Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War Author(s): The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. ![]()
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