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The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888956
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Growth written by Robert J. Gordon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, 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.

American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War

Author : Robert E. Gallman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226279472
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War by : Robert E. Gallman

Download or read book American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War written by Robert E. Gallman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.

Government and the American Economy

Author : Price V. Fishback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226251292
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Government and the American Economy written by Price V. Fishback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.

The 4% Solution

Author : The Bush Institute
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307986144
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The 4% Solution written by The Bush Institute and published by Currency. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by President George W. Bush With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term unemployment is alarmingly high, and the Congressional Budget Office is projecting a sustainable growth rate of only 2.3%—a full percentage point below the average for the past sixty years. Unless a turnaround comes quickly, the United States could be mired in debt for years to come and millions of Americans will be pushed to the sidelines of the economy. The 4% Solution offers clear and unflinching ideas on how to revive America’s economy. It sets a positive economic goal and asks some of the top economic minds on how to achieve it. With a focus on removing government constraints, The 4% Solution defines the policies that will allow Americans to save, invest, and create the jobs that the United States needs. The 4% Solution draws on the best minds in the business, including five Nobel laureates: · Robert E. Lucas, Jr., on the history and future of economic growth · Gary S. Becker on why we need immigrants in order to grow · Edward Prescott on the cost (to growth) of the welfare state · Vernon Smith on why housing leads us into and out of recessions · Myron Scholes on why we need to innovate in order to grow the economy

Railroads and American Economic Growth

Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roots of American Industrialization

Author : David R. Meyer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871412
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis The Roots of American Industrialization by : David R. Meyer

Download or read book The Roots of American Industrialization written by David R. Meyer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.

Slavery and American Economic Development

Author : Gavin Wright
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807152285
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and American Economic Development written by Gavin Wright and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization—the aspect that has dominated historical debates—and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.

Human Capital in History

Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616389X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Human Capital in History written by Leah Platt Boustan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume honours the contributions Claudia Goldin has made to scholarship and teaching in economic history and labour economics. The chapters address some closely integrated issues: the role of human capital in the long-term development of the American economy, trends in fertility and marriage, and women's participation in economic change.

Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861

Author : Stuart Bruchey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136615555
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861 written by Stuart Bruchey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to apply a self-described broad approach to American economic growth and to place the process within the mainstream of American history. This approach establishes that economic growth involves far more than economics; most students of growth view that process as one which cuts across the boundaries of the disciplines within the social sciences. After a brief introduction of the subject of the book, Bruchey further discusses the need for such guidance and tries to make clear what it is that has directed his own path in this field.

American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline And Rejuvenation

Author : Samuel Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1403990263
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline And Rejuvenation by : Samuel Rosenberg

Download or read book American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline And Rejuvenation written by Samuel Rosenberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slavery's Capitalism

Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293096
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Slavery's Capitalism written by Sven Beckert and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom. Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. Rothman, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Shankman, Craig Steven Wilder.

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

Author : L. E. Davis
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521081115
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (811 download)

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Book Synopsis Institutional Change and American Economic Growth by : L. E. Davis

Download or read book Institutional Change and American Economic Growth written by L. E. Davis and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.

Growth and Welfare in the American Past

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growth and Welfare in the American Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the American Economy

Author : Gary M.. Walton
Publisher : Thomson South-Western
ISBN 13 : 9781439037522
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book History of the American Economy written by Gary M.. Walton and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying America's past to the economic policies of today and beyond, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 11e, INTERNATIONAL EDITION presents events chronologically for easy understanding. Get a firm foundation in the evolution of the American economy with this ever-popular classic.

Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500

Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009553
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500 written by Stanley L. Engerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.

Founding Choices

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226384756
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Founding Choices written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.

Why Australia Prospered

Author : Ian W. McLean
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691171335
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Why Australia Prospered written by Ian W. McLean and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.