The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Subtitle: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 762
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: 1870-1940 The Great Inventions Create a Revolution Inside and Outside the Home
pagenum: 25; label: 2
title: The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870
pagenum: 27; label: 3
title: What They Ate and Wore and Where They Brought It
pagenum: 62; label: 4
title: The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked
pagenum: 94; label: 5
title: Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements
pagenum: 129; label: 6
title: From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment
pagenum: 172; label: 7
title: Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death
pagenum: 206; label: 8
title: Working Conditions on the Job and at Home
pagenum: 247; label: 9
title: Taking and Mitigating Risks:  Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government
pagenum: 288; label: Entr'acte
title: The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution
pagenum: 319; label: II
title: 1940-2015 The Golden Age and the Early Warnings of Slower Growth
pagenum: 329; label: 10
title: Fast food Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing
pagenum: 331; label: 11
title: See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above
pagenum: 374; label: 12
title: Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone
pagenum: 409; label: 13
title: Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook
pagenum: 441; label: 14
title: Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine
pagenum: 461; label: 15
title: Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job
pagenum: 498; label: Entr'acte
title: Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth
pagenum: 522; label: III
title: The Sources of Faster and Slower Growth
pagenum: 533; label: 16
title: The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It?
pagenum: 535; label: 17
title: Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past?
pagenum: 566; label: 18
title: Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl
pagenum: 605; title: Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead
pagenum: 641; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 653; title: Data Appendix
pagenum: 657; title: Notes
pagenum: 667; title: References
pagenum: 717; title: Credits
pagenum: 741; title: Index
pagenum: 754