Extent:
1 Online-Ressource
96 b/w illus., 32 tables
Series:
Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Language: English
Notes:
De Gruyter - University Press Pilot Project. eBook available to select US libraries only
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Frontmatter -- -- CONTENTS -- -- PREFACE -- -- 1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth -- -- PART I. 1870-1940 -THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME -- -- 2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 -- -- 3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It -- -- 4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked -- -- 5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements -- -- 6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment -- -- 7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death -- -- 8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home -- -- 9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government -- -- Entr’acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution -- -- PART II. 1940-2015 - THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH -- -- 10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing -- -- 11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above -- -- 12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone -- -- 13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook -- -- 14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine -- -- 15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job -- -- Entr’acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth -- -- PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH -- -- 16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? -- -- 17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? -- -- 18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl -- -- Postscript: America’s Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead -- -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Data Appendix -- -- Notes -- -- References -- -- Credits -- -- Index -- -- THE PRINCETON ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
In English
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8895-5 ; 978-0-691-17580-5
Other identifiers:
10.1515/9781400888955 [DOI]
10.1515/9781400888955?locatt=mode:legacy [DOI]
Classification: Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Source:
ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481636