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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
第一部分为了追求全面，所以内容都是一带而过，大篇幅的年份，数据，流水账式的叙述，比较劝退。以19世纪末20世纪初的技术变革作为基础，几十年间整个人类社会得以飞速发展。引用书里引用的台词“托托，我感觉我们已经不在堪萨斯了”，以此开始第二部分。 阅读前脑测第三次工业...
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...
评分1870—1970年是美国的“特殊世纪”，劳动生产率加速提升，人民生活水平得到改善。 1928—1950年的“大跨越”时期，美国劳动生产率在短短22年间翻了一番。 一.技术创新，大萧条和二战是促成这个经济奇迹的最重要原因。 1. 技术创新 全要素生产率的提高。主要包含了技术进步，也...
评分第一部分为了追求全面，所以内容都是一带而过，大篇幅的年份，数据，流水账式的叙述，比较劝退。以19世纪末20世纪初的技术变革作为基础，几十年间整个人类社会得以飞速发展。引用书里引用的台词“托托，我感觉我们已经不在堪萨斯了”，以此开始第二部分。 阅读前脑测第三次工业...
评分这不是个完整的书评。主要是看了豆瓣上的短评觉得误解很多，所以忍不住想澄清一下。如果你只是想了解下这本书对最新增长研究的影响，可以只看 section 二，3）。 如果没时间读书，可以看Gordon 12年的 nber working paper 。 一，Brief summary of the book: 1) From Growth to...
用户评价
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。
评分这本书实在太长了，其实作为一篇文章更好。书很沉，每天拿着读完后，压得左手无名指和小指都疼。第一部分还好些，说的时代早些；第二部分读的很乏味。每章前后的概括和总结很啰嗦。主要结论就是某些发明创造比其它发明更重要，而重要的发明只能发明一次。1920-1970年间生产率提高很快，年化2.8%，主要是此前第二次工业革命带来的影响，而1970年后的技术进步主要集中在娱乐、通讯和信息处理，影响较窄，衣食住行、医疗、工作环境等方面的进步有限，从而导致生产率增长放缓。放眼未来，由于不平等、教育、人口结构和债务问题，未来增长会更具挑战。但这本书对过去研究很细并不表明其能预测未来。未来技术突破的程度和快慢，谁有把握能说准呢？比如在医疗方面，人类正处在攻克癌症的前夜，新的技术已不局限于上世纪50年代的了。
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。
评分看完之后意识到这本书面向的群体是估计是大众……图表简单，描述详尽，也不需要太多制度背景。对于普通美国家庭从1870年到2014年生活变迁史的描写尤其精彩。不过因为作者是做宏观的，对相当多的微观美国经济史研究也没有考虑，所以一些结论和政策建议我只能打个问号。
评分这本书是颠覆性的，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？
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