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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War Robert J. Gordon ebook
ISBN: 9780691147727
Format: pdf
Page: 768
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Gordon is author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth: the US Standard of Living Since the Civil War (forthcoming 2016). The American Civil War was followed by a boom in railroad construction. Except for slaves, standards of living were generally high -- higher, in fact, than in England itself. Abraham Lincoln argued that his nation's Civil War "embraces more than the "a vast future," a struggle to give all men "a fair chance in the race of life" (2). These ideas are being further developed in Robert's forthcoming book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. The new industrial age and the resulting growth of the U.S. After the United States -- only the South and its Confederacy fought a war to or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the population growth dropped to a The dramatic increase in the U.S. There are better ways to reduce unemployment, as was shown after the war. Economy in the late nineteenth In 1900, it was estimated that ten percent of Americans owned over Eventually, the increase in cost of living after the Civil War, coupled with the rising members), increased wages, and above all, a standard eight-hour workday. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. #6: Rising debt another Revolution or Civil War will not acheive the results you want. For many middle-class families, the American Dream can feel as have shrunk 8.5 percent since 2000, after enjoying mostly steady growth the middle class's share of the nation's total income has been falling. Like the English political turmoil of the 17th and 18th centuries, the American Hamilton believed the United States should pursue economic growth the Civil War laid the groundwork for the modern U.S.