Who recommended The Rise and Fall of American Growth?

11 people have recommended The Rise and Fall of American Growth in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Patrick Collison, Marc Andreessen and Satya Nadella. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is The Rise and Fall of American Growth worth reading?

11 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a policy analyst at a state budget office preparing a 10–20 year fiscal forecast — the book's long-run scenarios and historical precedent may help frame demographic and productivity assumptions.; a history instructor building a unit on industrial and domestic change in America — the book presents concrete examples (electric lighting, indoor plumbing, automobiles) that link technology to everyday life and living standards.; a long-term investor or corporate strategist weighing secular demand scenarios for infrastructure or consumer markets — useful if you want conservative long-run scenarios because the book presents historical material that favors cautious growth assumptions.. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the narrative turns into long chapters of GDP accounting and repeated statistical digressions — the middle of the book is a common drop-off point.; annoying if you prefer punchy, solution-oriented books — this is descriptive and argumentative rather than a how-to or prescriptive roadmap.; not for readers who dislike a polemical tone or frequent restatement — the author's certainty and repetition can feel one-sided and tiring..

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon

Name: The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Author: Robert J. Gordon

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn 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 and workplaces. But has that ...