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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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
Acknowledgments
Data Appendix
Notes
References
Credits
Index
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