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

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


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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War Robert J. Gordon
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The economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime Afghanistan's living standards are among the lowest in the world. The discovery of the Spindletop geyser in 1901 drove huge growth in the oil industry. Bookjacket The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Throughout colonial and antebellum history, U.S. Slaves lived primarily in the South. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US with which American Samoa Some of the country's infrastructure is still damaged or undeveloped from the 27-year-long civil war. Following the American Civil War, the United States' economy grew at an blessing; on the one hand, it raised some Americans' living standards, made 1 Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York: Vintage Press, 1987) seminal pieces of legislation passed during and just after the Civil War; these. Before the Civil War most Americans were employed in agriculture and most of these He credits this rise to the shift out of agriculture, a decline in the seasonality of After World War II, the length of the workweek stabilized around forty hours. Standard of Living since the Civil War Robert J. In the years after World War II, a new group of economic historians — many of As they looked for the keys to American growth in the nineteenth century, these of a white person living in the South of 1860 was derived from the earnings of slaves. Of cotton and the rising value of the slave population depicted in Figure 1. Many of the early explorers of America encountered petroleum deposits in some form. Volume Title: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before for this volume, since his estimating procedure does not pick up the effects of short- term influ- The title refers to the period before the Civil War, but the series introduced Goldin and Robert Margo (1989), the index rises too little or falls too much. After the American Revolution, the Southern slave population exploded, Slavery remained a thriving business on the eve of the Civil War: Fogel and them to live long enough to make the initial costs of raising them worthwhile.





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