"The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War" von Robert J. Gordon untersucht die Entwicklung des Lebensstandards in den USA seit dem Bürgerkrieg. Gordon argumentiert, dass das enorme...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households...