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

- **Author:** Robert J. Gordon
- **Read:** March 2016
- **Topic:** History & Economics
- **Published:** 2016
- **Pages:** 762
- **Picked by:** Loren
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17343962W
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## Synopsis

The trajectory and impetus of American growth from the end of the Civil War until now.