Book : The Rise And Fall Of American Growth The U.s....

-Titulo Original : The Rise And Fall Of American Growth The U.s. Standard Of Living Since The Civil War (the Princeton Economic History Of The Western World, 70)

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Princeton University Press

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Review Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public AccountantsWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American PublishersA New York Times BestsellerOne of Financial Times (FT ) Best Economics Books of 2016One of Foreign Affairs’ Editors’ Picks 2016One of The Economist’s Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016One of The Wall Street Journal’s “The 20 Books That Defined Our Year” 2016One of the Washington Post’s Best Economics Books 2016One of Bloomberg View’s “Five Books to Change Conservatives’ Minds,” chosen by Cass SunsteinOne of Bloomberg View’s Great History Books of 2016#36 on Bloomberg’s 50 Most Influential ListOne of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2016One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in HistoryOne of the StrategyBusiness Best Business Books 2016 in EconomyShortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardOne of The NewYorker Page-Turner blog’s “The Books We Loved in 2016”Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill UniversityThe Rise and Fall of American Growth . . . is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year.---Rana Foroohar, TimeThis is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis. . . . [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past.---Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages.---Neil Irwin, New York TimesRobert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries. . . . The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period. . . . If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordons landmark study.---William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished.---Edward Glaeser, Wall Street JournalMr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis.---Greg Ip, Wall Street JournalA masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in todays political economy. KirkusNormally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordons conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice.---Matthew Yglesias, VoxMagnificent. . . . Gordon presents his case. . . with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data. . . . Even if history changes direction. . . this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism. EconomistEvery presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordons list is a good place to start.---David Wessel, WSJ s, Think Tank[W]hat may be the years most important book on economics has already been published. . . . What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits.---Robert Samuelson, Washington PostRobert Gordons The Rise and Fall of American