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- 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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读后感
好书，花了近10天才勉强啃完的大部头。资料很翔实，可以做工具书了。涉及的范围很广，到后面有点看不下去。每章开头有引言，然后分开论述，最后再有一节小结。经济增长并不是一个又一个世纪以不变速度创造经济进步的稳态过程。1700年之前的上千年几乎没有经济增长，在1870年之...
评分洋洋洒洒一百多年的美国发展史。感觉作者写过去比写现在更精彩… 非常喜欢书中细致入微的描写美国人民上世纪初生活的零零总总，方方面面，带我认识了上个世纪初的“亚马逊”-西尔斯(刚破产), 也让我认识到那个时期美国的城市生活与我们上个世纪七八十年代的城市生活是多么地相...
评分 评分这是一本比较难读的书，里面汇总了大量的数据和图表，读起来的时候需要人非常的专注，要求有很高的关注度，这种长时间的阅读真是对自己的一种考验，还好，断断续续，一章一章的，慢慢的读完啦，还是比较要成就感。 比较起美国初期的生活条件，我们现在的生活还是幸福很多，但是...
评分以我们有限的生命长度，其实经常会出现一些幻觉。 尤其是近二三十年来，计算机、通信、互联网、智能手机、人工智能等前赴后继地构成了新一轮科技发展浪潮，并且创造了很多财富和被这些财富支撑的巨头企业，以至于让我们这些身处其中的人产生了一个幻觉：好像科技发展的浪潮是轻...
用户评价
这本书是颠覆性的，作者挑战现代经济增长理论的两个根本假设，消费等于生活标准(Solow56, Swan56)和技术进步(Romer86,90)。在全世界的增长大牛都在努力回应这本书的时候(acemoglu, aghion, bloom, klenow, jones, van reenen,...)，豆瓣评分7.8？
评分按照戈登的理论，从1870年开始的一个世纪真的是个神奇的世纪，至少对美国来说是这样的。经济发展惠及每个家庭，所有人的生活水平都出现了质的飞跃，而其根源则是一系列伟大的创新。这些创新当然没有我们今天说起人工智能所感觉到的那样苦，但这些创新更实际，对每个人的影响也更大。中国在过去四十年中经历的也是这样的黄金时代，只是我们更多运用了移植而不是发明。但是，什么时候能再有这样的黄金时代？没人知道。
评分从技术进步和生活改善的角度对1870年以来的美国经济增长起落和结构变迁做了细致的梳理和分析。
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."
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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