The Rise and Fall of American Growth
by Robert J. Gordon
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[NEW POST] The Rise and Fall of American Growth
I am reading this 700+ page book that challenges the widely held belief that economic growth is inevitable.
I'll be sharing summaries and my thoughts all week. Let me know what you think :)
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The history of chicken:
"The fact that red meat was rationed but fish and poultry were not was a harbinger of the steady shift to poultry in the postwar diet."
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Some of my favorite books on this history:
The Rise & Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon
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The Fifties by David Halberstam
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The Big Change by Frederick Lewis Allen
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Even more amazing is that this took place in the middle of a terrible recession.
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