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Staged from the field of economic geography, the book seeks to build bridges to complementary developments in critical political economy and heterodox economic studies by way of a substantive theoretical and methodological program. Jamie Peck advances a series of arguments concerning the inherent-and highly consequential-spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, engaging a range of issues from the diversity of capitalism(s) to the dynamics of late-stage neoliberalization, and from the problematic uneven geographical development to the challenges-cum-opportunities of conjunctural methodologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements            List of Tables             List of Figures              Abbreviations             Ch. 1 Different Again: Encounters with Economic Geography          Ch. 2 Remaking Heterodoxy: Navigating Economic Geographies                  Ch. 3 Socioeconomic Geographies: Networks, Embeddedness, and More                Ch. 4 Rascal Concepts: Tangling with Neoliberalism                  Ch. 5 Relocating Variety: Towards Variegated Capitalism (with Nik Theodore) Ch. 6 Confounding Variety? 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Exquisite, eloquent and effortlessly erudite \u003cb\u003e -\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eif you liked \u003ci\u003eSapiens\u003c\/i\u003e, you'll love this\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAstounding in scope and insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Journey of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e provides a captivating and revelatory account of the deepest currents that have shaped human history, and the keys to the betterment of our species\u003c\/b\u003e -- Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI am in awe of Oded Galor's attempts to explain inequality today as a consequence of such profound forces. 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The result is a precious gift that will be read, studied and cherished for years to come by those of us who believe her when she says to be green we must be red, and to be red our world building must be planetary. -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of \u003ci\u003eNoopiming: The Cure for White Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essential collection of writings from one of the most important thinkers on abolition, geography and racism of our time. -- Karla J. Strand * Ms.Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of writing by this major thinker, activist, and writer in the fields of racism, geography, and incarceration. The book includes essays, articles, and interviews from the last two decades, covering topics such as the origin of mass incarceration and racial violence and the concept of the 'anti-state state'. * Autostraddle *\u003cbr\u003eAnyone with an interest in the critical theory of mass incarceration and social justice can't miss this first-ever compendium of writing by one of the most brilliant and radical minds in the field. [An] impactful guidebook for a whole new generation looking to join the movement. * The Chicago Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eFor over three decades, Gilmore's work has been crucial to the study of policing and prison abolition...Her newest anthology, \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e, includes essays on policing, capitalism and organizing [that] are more critical than ever two years after the largest street mobilization in decades. Expertly assembled by scholars Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, the anthology reproduces Gilmore's essays chronologically from 1991 to 2018. The only way to escape the cycles of police violence, protest and retrenchment will be to collectively build popular, abolitionist frameworks for relating to each other. Gilmore's work helps us move toward that goal. -- Andreas Petrossiants * AJ+ *\u003cbr\u003eA geographer by training, Gilmore has a sweeping understanding of prisons and policing, one that approaches the issue at scale. 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Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, histor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers A New York Times Bestseller One of Bloomberg View's \"Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds,\" chosen by Cass Sunstein #36 on Bloomberg's \"50 Most Influential\" List One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of The Economist's Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016 One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in History One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016 One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of The Wall Street Journal's \"The 20 Books That Defined Our Year\" 2016 One of Foreign Affairs' Editors' Picks 2016 One of the Washington Post's Best Economics Books 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of The NewYorker.com Page-Turner blog's \"The Books We Loved in 2016\" Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth... is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year.\"--Rana Foroohar, Time \"This is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis... [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past.\"--Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review \"[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages.\"--Neil Irwin, New York Times \"Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries... The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period... If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordon's landmark study.\"--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books \"Mr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis.\"--Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished.\"--Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal \"A masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in today's political economy.\"--Kirkus \"Normally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordon's conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice.\"--Matthew Yglesias, Vox \"Magnificent... Gordon presents his case... with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data... Even if history changes direction... this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism.\"--Economist \"Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordon's list is a good place to start.\"--David Wessel, WSJ.com's Think Tank blog \"[W]hat may be the year's most important book on economics has already been published... What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits.\"--Robert Samuelson, Washington Post \"Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an extraordinary work of economic scholarship... Moreover, this is one of the rare economics books that is on the one hand deeply analytical ... And on the other a pleasure to read... [A] landmark work.\"--Lawrence Summers, Prospect \"Ambitious... The hefty tome, minutely detailed yet dauntingly broad in scope, offers a lively portrayal of the evolution of American living standards since the Civil War.\"--Eduardo Porter, New York Times \"Two years ago a huge book on economics took the world by storm. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... became a surprise bestseller... Robert Gordon's tome on American economic growth stretches to 768 pages and its central message is arguably more important.\"--David Smith, Sunday Times \"A landmark new book.\"--Gavin Kelly, The Guardian \"Looking ahead, judging presidents by policies rather than outcomes may be all the more important. In a new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the economist Robert Gordon argues that we are in the midst of an era of meager technological change. Yes, we now have smartphones and Twitter, but previous generations introduced electric lighting, indoor plumbing and the internal combustion engine. In Mr. Gordon's view, technological change is just not what it used to be, and we had better get used to slower growth in productivity and incomes.\"--N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is likely to be the most interesting and important economics book of the year. It provides a splendid analytic take on the potency of past economic growth, which transformed the world from the end of the nineteenth century onward... Gordon's book serves as a powerful reminder that the U.S. economy really has gone through a protracted slowdown and that this decline has been caused by the stagnation in technological progress.\"--Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs \"[A]n important new book.\"--Martin Ford, Huffington Post \"[A] lightning bolt of a new book.\"--Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect \"So powerful and intriguing are the facts and arguments marshaled by Gordon that even informed critics who think he is wrong recommend that readers plow through his The Rise and Fall of American Growth, with its 60 graphics and 64 tables spread over more than 700 pages. You don't need to be an economist to appreciate or understand the book. His thesis is straightforward.\"--David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America.com \"What is novel about Gordon's approach to this problem is that he doesn't try to find political causes for our economic woes... [E]xhaustive and sweeping in scope, and novel in its thinking about growth.\"--Chris Matthews, Fortune.com \"[A] fascinating new book.\"--Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe \"One of the most important books of recent years... Powerful and impressive.\"--Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View \"This is a tremendous, sobering piece of research, which does a lot to explain the febrile, nervous state of modern Western democracies.\"--Marcus Tanner, The Independent \"A new book by economist Robert Gordon--The Rise and Fall of American Growth--is causing quite a stir.\"--City A.M. \"If he's right, and one links this with growing income inequality, our would-be leaders will have difficulty in making the case for achieving the American dream through steady incremental progress achieved through collaboration and political compromise.\"--Michael Hoffmann, Desert Sun \"Robert Gordon's new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is masterful... Gordon skillfully lays out myriad information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal.\"--Edward Lotterman, St. Paul Pioneer Press \"[I]mpressive.\"--Peter Martin, Sydney Morning Herald \"In his unsettling new book, Gordon, who teaches at Northwestern, weighs in on the role of technology in the U.S. over the past century-and-a-half. He does so forcefully, so forcefully, in fact, as to wipe the smiles off the faces of most techno-optimists, myself included.\"--Peter A. Coclanis, Charlotte Observer \"[A] thoughtful new book.\"--David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is this year's equivalent to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century: an essential read for all economists, who are unanimously floored by its boldness and scope even if they don't agree with its conclusions.\"--Adam Davidson, New York Times Magazine \"Gordon makes a compelling case for why the era of fast growth in America ended around 1970 and will not return in the foreseeable future, if ever.\"--Dick Meyer, DecodeDC \"Gordon argues that we are not going to get another surge soon and that there are several headwinds that are going to work against faster growth, including income inequality, education as a differentiator and not an equalizer, the debt overhang, and demography.\"--John Mason, TheStreet.com \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] challenges every political claim, and every pundit's remedy, regarding how to get the lackluster American economy to boom again in the decades ahead, as it once did a half-century or more ago... [The book] represents the culmination of Gordon's many years of investigation into this key economic question of our age, namely: 'Why is it that the American economy has never been able to return to the happy boom years of our grandparents' time?' Why is it that, decade after decade, administration after administration, annualized productivity growth has only been about one-half to one-third that of the age of Truman and Eisenhower?\"--Paul Kennedy, Tribune Content Agency \"[M]asterful... Gordon skillfully lays out information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal... The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a rare example of a work with solid economics that can be understood, and enjoyed, by nearly any lay person.\"--Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman \"As an economic historian, Gordon is beyond reproach.\"--Edward Luce, Financial Times \"Provocative.\"--Associated Press \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is a deep dive into the past with an eye to the future... [The book] is part of a fascinating debate about future prospects for the American economy.\"--Knowledge@Wharton \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] has set the wonky world of economics aflame.\"--Ryan Craig, TechCrunch \"Magisterial.\"--John Kay, Financial Times \"[A] contentious new book.\"--Margaret Wente, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"[A] fabulous new book... [I]mpressive.\"--Dr. Mike Walden, Morganton News Herald \"Northwestern Bob Gordon's new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, offers a deeper explanation for the underlying mechanics behind slowed economic growth.\"--Jon Hartley, Forbes.com \"So much of what the presidential candidates and the American people want to accomplish over the next four years and beyond depends on the U.S. economy growing faster, and more inclusively, than it has in recent years. This year's hot economics book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by one of America's most distinguished macroeconomists, Robert Gordon, casts a pall on whether this is possible, arguing that the U.S. had a golden century of increasing innovation from roughly 1870 to 1970, but this was unique.\"--Robert Litan, Fortune.com \"Gordon's book offers the definitive account of how the many technological innovations between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved life in the United States.\"--Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas blog \"[M]agiserial... The Northwestern University professor lays out the case that the productivity miracle underlying the American way of life was largely a one-time deal.\"--Matt Phillips, Quartz \"Robert Gordon's new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth has taken the economics world by storm this winter.\"--Myles Udland, Business Insider \"[M]assive.\"--Ben Casselman, FiveThirty Eight \"[G]roundbreaking.\"--Zeeshan Aleem, Mic \"With a painstaking--and fascinating--historical analysis of American productivity, [Gordon] argues that the innovations of today pale in comparison to earlier in our history and that we might actually be entering a period of prolonged stagnation. He may very well be right.\"--Greg Satell, Forbes.com \"[P]rovocative.\"--Barrie McKenna, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"[I]nfluential.\"--Martin Neil Baily, Fortune.com \"[A] stimulating book.\"--George Will, Washington Post \"Compulsive reading.\"--Andrew Hilton, Financial World \"Gordon is not an alarmist, far from it. His is a sober voice of concern, of caution, which needs to be heard by those in the helm in America. And a fascinating lesson for ambitious and growing countries like India.\"--Dr R Balashankar, Sunday Guardian \"[A] fascinating convergence of green and mainstream thought.\"--Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay Journal \"[T]his panoramic book makes good reading.\"--Shane Greenstein, Harvard Magazine \"The book's great contribution is the tapestry it weaves of all the innovations that changed most Americans' lives beyond recognition in the century from 1870 to 1970.\"--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is unquestionably an important book that raises fundamental questions about the United States' economy and society.\"--New Criterion \"[A] masterpiece.\"--Martin Wolf, Financial Times \"[An] impressive book... Gordon's book provides sufficient ammunition to show the colossal problems facing capitalism.\"--Socialism Today \"Rich with detailed information, meticulous observations, and even anecdotes and stories ... a fascinating read.\"--Ricardo F. Levi, Corriere della Sera \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is essential reading for anyone interested in economics.\"--Choice \"In an important new book, economist Robert Gordon makes the case for pessimism. He believes that technologies like smartphones, robots, and artificial intelligence aren't going to have the kind of big impact on the economy that earlier inventions--like the internal combustion engine and electricity--did.\"--Timothy B. Lee, Vox \"Robert Gordon has written an engaging economic-based history of America... Gordon is to be commended for helping to stimulate a national debate on the current low level of economic productivity.\"--Allan Hauer, Innovation: The Journal of Technology \u0026amp; Commercialization \"If you want to see how far we have come and how tough life was a century and a half ago, read Gordon's book.\"--David R. Henderson, Regulation \"A fantastic read.\"--Bill Gates, GatesNotes \"The book is well written, and one can only be in awe of Gordon's mastery of the factual history of the American standard of living.\"--Robert A. Margo, EH.net \"Monumental.\"--John Cassidy, NewYorker.com \"Zeitgeist-defining.\"--Myles Udland, Business Insider \"[A] magisterial treatise.\"--Nick Gillespie, Reason.com \"[A]n essential read for anyone interested not only in US economic history but also American economic prospects ... a tremendous achievement.\"--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist \"A comprehensive history of American economic growth.\"--Eric Rauchway, American Prospect \"Professor Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a magisterial volume that will benefit any serious student of economics, demographics or history.\"--Wendell Cox, New Geography \"A wonderful new book.\"--Jeff Sachs, Boston Globe \"The most important economics book of 2016.\"--Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune \"This spectacular history traces the rise and the plateau of the American economy since industrialization.\"--Jay Weiser, Weekly Standard \"[A] landmark book... An impressive history of how the American people progressed in their standards of living and productivity in the 'golden century' of 1870-1970.\"--Stephen M. Millett, Strategy \u0026amp; Leadership \"Gordon's encyclopedic The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a new history of modern U.S. economic life, [is] perhaps the best yet written.\"--Jonathan Levy, Dissent \"One of our greatest economic historians... Gordon's exhaustive research program ... has knocked me back on my intellectual heels.\"--J. Bradford DeLong, Strategy + Business \"This is the most important book on economics in many years.\"--Martin Wolf, Financial Times \"Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth set out a thesis of technological diminishing returns that does much to explain an age of economic pessimism.\"--Lorien Kite, Financial Times \"In the course of Gordon's book, a vivid picture of everyday life as our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents lived it emerges... What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did. Reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth, I thought a lot about my grandparents. Gordon's book has made their lives more real to me.\"--Joshua Rothman, NewYorker.com's Page-Turner blog \"Magisterial... While the book has gotten attention because of its bold projection of slow growth in the future, this is actually just one small element of a magnificent and detailed presentation of how our economy has changed since 1870. Most people don't fully appreciate what life was like in the past and Gordon gives a blow-by-blow description of how people lived in America from 1870 on. In addition, he carefully explains how each new innovation was created and how its adoption changed people's lives.\"--Stephen Rose, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas \"Gordon constructs a strong case using conventional economic principles and exacting data measurement.\"--Don Pittis, CBC News \"Gordon's genius is to weave together economic history with the story of the technology, know-how, politic, demographics and medicine that made the astonishing progress of the US perhaps the most remarkable ever.\"--Sean O'Grady, The Independent \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert Gordon, is that rarest thing: a work of densely researched macroeconomics that is compulsively readable.\"--Bill Morris, The Millions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth 1  PART I. 1870-1940-THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME 25  2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 27  3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It 62  4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked 94  5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements 129  6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment 172  7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death 206  8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home 247  9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government 288  Entr'acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution 319  PART II. 1940-2015-THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH 329  10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing 331  11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above 374  12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone 409  13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook 441  14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine 461  15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job 498  Entr'acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth 522  PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH 533  16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? 535  17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? 566  18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl 605  Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead 641  Acknowledgments 653  Data Appendix 657  Notes 667  References 717  Credits 741  Index 745","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865523761495,"sku":"9780691147727","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691147727.jpg?v=1722274380"},{"product_id":"portfolios-of-the-poor-9780691148199","title":"Portfolios of the Poor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating discussion of the finances of the world's poor.\"--Nicholas Kristof, NYTimes.com \"Ten years ago, the authors of this unusual study began collecting detailed yearlong 'financial diaries' from households in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa... The diarists did things that might seem irrational--borrowing in order to save; paying interest on savings--but that made sense given their unpredictable incomes and limited options. While the authors do offer prescriptions for how to expand those options, it's their scrupulous attention to actual behavior that makes this book invaluable.\"--New Yorker \"The book's methodology and conclusions are fascinating.\"--Publishers Weekly \"The authors of Portfolios of the Poor found that a 'triple whammy' characterizes the financial lives of the poor. Incomes are not only low; they are also irregular and unpredictable... The authors' account suggests much that can be done to ease the financial conditions of poor people.\"--Anirudh Krishna, Science \"A refreshingly distinct path. Portfolios of the Poor ... avoid[s] the big picture and zoom[s] in on the basics of daily poverty, exploring how poor families manage their money... The diaries reveal a 'real, ongoing, and substantial demand' for better financial services, which poor families need to provide better health care and schooling for their children... Rather than waiting for the world to debate and accept their ideas, these authors have taken them up on their own. In the war against global poverty, that feels like one small battle won.\"--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post \"The research provides evidence of the sophistication with which poor people think about their finances.\"--The Economist \"I recommend this book to anyone who has interest in improving the lives of the poor.\"--Melinda Gates, Co-chair, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Huffington Post \"This is a very interesting book, which examines the quite sophisticated financial system developed by poor households to adjust their spending relative to their income.\"--Choice \"A masterly assessment of the financial needs of people on very low incomes ... stuffed full of interesting and surprising insights, and should be read by anyone concerned with economic development and poverty reduction. I can't praise it highly enough. This is a model of the careful collection of evidence with important practical consequences.\"--Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist \"A good overview of how the world's poor intersect with financial institutions at the micro level.\"--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution \"This book is a major contribution to the understanding of the situation of the poor in developing countries and should be a 'must reading' for both academics and policymakers concerned with ways of improving developmental policies.\"--Werner Baer, Enterprise and Society \"[A] fascinating and humanizing insight into the economic lives of the global poor, and a valuable resource for attempting to improve those lives.\"--Ethics \u0026amp; International Affairs \"The book is written in a non-technical style accessible to the lay reader... [I]t makes a compelling case about the desperation of poverty, as well as the ingenuity of the people who live under conditions of poverty.\"--Sajeda Amin, Population and Development Review \"Portfolios of the Poor should be read by anyone interested in microfinance, but also who interested in poverty more generally and in how the poor manage their day-to-day lives.\"--Isabelle Guerin, Enterprise, Development and Microfinance \"[T]his is a great book. It remains an excellent survey of the poors' realities, certainly a 'must-have' for all researchers interested in the financial practices of the poor and microfinance.\"--Marek Hudon, Development and Change \"[T]he book is enlightening, methodologically credible and accessible; it is recommended.\"--Roger MacGinty, Round Table \"[W]e learn much about how the poor manage whatever little money they have. On that ground alone I highly recommend the book.\"--Rolf A.E. Muller, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture \"As Collins, Morduch, Rutherford, and Ruthven summarize their argument, 'Not having enough money is bad enough. Not being able to manage whatever money you have is worse.' Their book is a detailed effort to understand how poor people manage--and, frequently, mismanage--the meager resources at their disposal. They draw on more than 250 financial diaries collected in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa that tracked how money was earned and spent, along with interviews with the diarists. The result is a unique window onto what poverty means for these households.\"--Timothy Besley, Foreign Affairs \"The authors of Portfolios of the Poor ... make a convincing case both for the importance of finance in the lives of the extremely poor and for there being room to improve the provision of financial services to them.\"--Danny Reviews \"One of my favourite books. It gathers new evidence about the financial services people on very low incomes need--and the answers are sometimes surprising. Should be read by anyone with views on microcredit and\/or payday loans.\"--Enlightened Economist \"A terrific book.\"--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables vii  List of Figures ix  Chapter One: The Portfolios of the Poor 1  Chapter Two: The Daily Grind 28  Chapter Three: Dealing with Risk 65  Chapter Four: Building Blocks: Creating Usefully Large Sums 95  Chapter Five: The Price of Money 132  Chapter Six: Rethinking Microfinance: The Grameen II Diaries 154  Chapter Seven: Better Portfolios 174  Appendix 1: The Story behind the Portfolios 185  Appendix 2: A Selection of Portfolios 211  Acknowledgments 243  Notes 247  Bibliography 265  Index 273","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865523925335,"sku":"9780691148199","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691148199.jpg?v=1722274382"},{"product_id":"the-dollar-trap-9780691168524","title":"The Dollar Trap","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as the main reserve currency. Yet, as The Dollar Trap powe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance \u0026amp; Management, Association of American Publishers One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014 \"Thoughtful.\"--Jeff Sommer, New York Times \"[A] surprising argument... [L]ucid.\"--David Wessel, Wall Street Journal \"Richly detailed study of global finances, examining how and why the dollar became the favored currency of international trade.\"--Kirkus \"To understand how the world of international finance works, what the agendas are and what is at stake, this work is indispensable.\"--Henny Sender, Financial Times \"In his authoritative new book on the dollar, Eswar Prasad ... argues that China and other foreign countries that own around half the outstanding US federal government debt are trapped in a risky game where the US may be tempted to renege on its debt obligations by printing more dollars.\"--John Plender, Financial Times \"A lively and compelling analysis on currency wars in the wake of the financial crisis--and the likely persistence of the U.S. dollar as the world's pre-eminent currency.\"--Harold James, Central Banking Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables ix  Preface to the Paperback Edition xi  Preface xvii  PART ONE Setting the Stage  1. 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Ultimate Paradox: Fragility Breeds Stability 299  Appendix 309  Notes 317  References 375  Acknowledgments 393  Index 395","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865533460823,"sku":"9780691168524","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691168524.jpg?v=1722274429"},{"product_id":"the-culture-of-contentment-9780691171654","title":"The Culture of Contentment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought-provoking.\"--Kirkus","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865535164759,"sku":"9780691171654","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691171654.jpg?v=1722274440"},{"product_id":"the-rise-of-the-global-middle-class-9780815740322","title":"The Rise of the Global Middle Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865998111063,"sku":"9780815740322","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"economic-geography-9781118874325","title":"Economic Geography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume in the celebrated \u003ci\u003eCritical Introductions to Geography\u003c\/i\u003e series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. 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It provides theoretical, analytical and empirically based policy-relevant tools to understand international production and trade in the modern global economy.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this Handbook offers expert guidance on GVC analysis and the relationship between GVCs and governance, power relations, gender, upgrading and international development. The contributors also provide insight into strategy, innovation and learning, highlighting the dynamism and resilience of GVCs, and critically reflect on how GVCs affect inequality and the nature of work and production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Comprising empirically rich and innovative research, this Handbook will be critical reading for advanced undergraduate and master's level students interested in international business, global industries, sustainable development and the governance of global production systems. 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I guarantee that I (and my students) will be using this volume as a go-to reference book for years to come.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --William Milberg, The New School for Social Research, US\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This is the book on global value chains. With contributions from many leading lights of the GVC approach, and rising star early career academics, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the analysis of power, governance and distributive outcomes of globalisation in trade and production, and identifies key challenges for GVC research in the 21st century.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction to the Handbook on Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert  Part I: Mapping, Measuring and Analyzing GVCs\t 1. Global Value Chain Mapping\t Stacey Frederick  2. Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer\t Karina Fernandez-Stark, Gary Gereffi  3. Measuring Global Value Chains\t Timothy Sturgeon  4. Global Value Chains and Quantitative Macro-Comparative Sociology\t  Matthew C. Mahutga  5. Modelling Global Value Chains: Approaches and Insights from Economics\t Davin Chor  Part II: Governance, Power and Inequality\t 6. Governance and Power in Global Value Chains\t Stefano Ponte, Timothy Sturgeon and Mark Dallas  7. Governance and Upgrading in Global Cultural and Creative Value Chains\t Joonkoo Lee and Minjung Lee  8. Rents and Inequality in Global Value Chains Raphael Kaplinsky  9. On Value in Value Chains\t  Elizabeth Havice, John Pickles  10. Global Value Chains and Uneven Development: A Disarticulations Perspective\t Marion Werner, Jennifer Bair  11. Contestation and Activism in Global Value Chains\t Florence Palpacuer  12. Bringing the Environment into GVC Analysis: Antecedents and Advances\t Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice  13. Sustainability, Global Value Chains and Green Capital Accumulation Stefano Ponte  Part III: The Multiple Dimensions of GVC Upgrading\t 14. Economic Upgrading in Global Value Chains\t Gary Gereffi  15. Measuring and Analyzing Services in Global Value Chains\t Patrick Low  16. Social Upgrading\t Ariana Rossi  17. Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains\t Peter Lund-Thomsen  18. Livelihood Upgrading\t Jeff Neilson  19. Environmental Upgrading in Global Value Chains\t Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Aarti Krishnan, Stefano Ponte  20. Gender Dynamics in Global Value Chains Stephanie Barrientos  Part IV: Strategy, Innovation and Learning\t 21. Firm-level Strategy and Global Value Chains\t Mari Sako, Ezequiel Zylberberg  22. The Role of Transnational first-tier Suppliers in GVC Governance\t Gale Raj-Reichert  23. Innovation in Global Value Chains\t Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti  24. 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A powerful and humane offering that shows us how the mess was made and urges us to lose no time in demanding something better. -- Arianne Shahvisi, author of \u003ci\u003eArguing for a Better World: How to Talk About the Issues That Divide Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe self-deception that we are a nation of fairness and justice is systematically exploded by a calm and persistent use of factual observations of the lives of people, spread between the super rich and the increasingly poor and socially left behind, in all parts of the country ... To read this could be depressing and disempowering, but that is not the intention. It is up to us, all of us, to be prepared to argue for a society that really does care for all -- Jeremy Corbyn, MP\u003cbr\u003eSobering, shocking and brilliantly incisive. 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[\u003ci\u003eShattered Nation\u003c\/i\u003e] provides a masterful critique of just why this country is in the shattered state it is. -- Paul Donovan * Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003eDorling convincingly demonstrates that the UK is a failing state. -- Larry Patriquin * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA devastating critique of how the UK got into the state it is today -- Paul Donovan * Guardian-Series *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... Dorling expertly demonstrates how successive administrations devoted to profit, not people, constantly adopted policies to favour the rich regardless of human consequences which inevitably made the poor poorer. -- Mo Stewart, author of \u003ci\u003eCash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWide ranging, entertaining, excoriating ... packed with facts and statistics that often astonish ... a depressing but essential read -- Stewart Wood * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e[Dorling] assembles a wealth of evidence to show how the current trajectory in the UK is one of increasing inequality ... [and] has created a resource for all those involved in movements in the UK striving for social justice and for an end to hunger, precarity, waste, exploitation and fear. -- Graham Kirkwood * Counterfire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Borders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an \"anti-state state\" that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholars like Ruthie Gilmore, filmmakers like Ava Duvernay, and formerly incarcerated people like Glenn Martin have all done work to expose the many injustices of the industry of our prison system. -- Jay-Z * Time *\u003cbr\u003eRuth Gilmore lays bare the diabolical logic of neoliberal incarceration. She shows us that the prison is a symptom of the decline of our civilization, how the California Nightmare has produced its disposable population. 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It is a rigorous criticism of capitalist social relations, which foment premature death and needless suffering of the poor and destroy the planet. Abolition geography is a human necessity for there to be freedom and a livable earth. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, one of the foremost revolutionary thinkers on abolition, draws on real historical traditions of getting free, showing us what is possible and necessary. -- Nick Estes, author of \u003ci\u003eOur History is the Future\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis well-crafted assemblage of thirty years worth of Ruthie Gilmore's countless, brilliant interventions is a tremendous gift to our movements. While tending to grounded practices and particularities, Ruthie's meticulous mapping of interconnected histories offers us prescient analyses across scale, geography, and time. 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This compilation of thirty years' worth of essays, interviews, and co-written reflections, is evidence of the depth and breadth of her extraordinary political praxis. Powerful, provocative, inspiring and inciting, this edited collection offers a formidable indictment of racial capitalism and the carceral state, a deep, complex and multi-faceted portrait of abolitionist work, and a call to action. Readers concerned with freedom-making and liberation will read this brilliant body of work carefully and act decisively. -- Barbara Ransby, activist, historian and author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eMaking All Black Lives Matter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of three decades of Ruth Wilson's Gilmore's brilliance in the form of essays and interviews on the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher and organizer. The result is a precious gift that will be read, studied and cherished for years to come by those of us who believe her when she says to be green we must be red, and to be red our world building must be planetary. -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of \u003ci\u003eNoopiming: The Cure for White Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essential collection of writings from one of the most important thinkers on abolition, geography and racism of our time. -- Karla J. Strand * Ms.Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of writing by this major thinker, activist, and writer in the fields of racism, geography, and incarceration. The book includes essays, articles, and interviews from the last two decades, covering topics such as the origin of mass incarceration and racial violence and the concept of the 'anti-state state'. * Autostraddle *\u003cbr\u003eAnyone with an interest in the critical theory of mass incarceration and social justice can't miss this first-ever compendium of writing by one of the most brilliant and radical minds in the field. [An] impactful guidebook for a whole new generation looking to join the movement. * The Chicago Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eFor over three decades, Gilmore's work has been crucial to the study of policing and prison abolition...Her newest anthology, \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e, includes essays on policing, capitalism and organizing [that] are more critical than ever two years after the largest street mobilization in decades. Expertly assembled by scholars Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, the anthology reproduces Gilmore's essays chronologically from 1991 to 2018. The only way to escape the cycles of police violence, protest and retrenchment will be to collectively build popular, abolitionist frameworks for relating to each other. Gilmore's work helps us move toward that goal. -- Andreas Petrossiants * AJ+ *\u003cbr\u003eA geographer by training, Gilmore has a sweeping understanding of prisons and policing, one that approaches the issue at scale. 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This anthology format allows the reader to see how Gilmore introduces, experiments with and then develops ideas in real time, taking us from the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 2021 neo-fascist attack on the US Capitol building. -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *\u003cbr\u003eGilmore is clear as a bell: potent and factual on injustice, filled with sharp intelligence and even wit, but also somehow continuously surprising and emotional. With every page, Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways. -- Kamil Ahsan * NPR *\u003cbr\u003eGilmore's work is enlightening and informative, a must-read for scholars and activists seeking a complex and interdisciplinary deep dive to effectively drive systemic change...Anyone committed to prison reform and social justice has much to learn from Gilmore's insights about the cognitive work and tactical organizing required to imagine and build an abolitionist future. -- Maileen Hamto * Seattle Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eGilmore's prose is descriptive and direct; it describes a society whose economy has failed too many of its members and whose only solution is to create a police state. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *\u003cbr\u003eMore than explaining or urging any single scalar change in social life, the purpose of \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is to develop the ability of its readers to study the transformations of racial capitalism, figure out what to do about them, and follow through with enough patience to withstand the enormity of the task and enough urgency to get it done...\u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is written to be used. -- Kay Gabriel * Dissent *\u003cbr\u003eAs Gilmore always reminds us, theory is a guide for action. 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But as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of the damage to Earth if we reduce inefficiency and waste. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLimits to Growth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a work of stunning intelligence that has exposed the critical line between human growth and human development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn N. Cooper, for AxisofLogic.com-\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is a wonderful book. Originally published in 1972 as \u003cem\u003eLimits to Growth\u003c\/em\u003e and refreshed in 1992 in \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Limits\u003c\/em\u003e, the authors have now issued a 30-year appraisal [Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN 1-931498-58-X], in which they examine the progress made both in their understanding of the mechanisms underlying the impact of humanity on the world ecology and of steps taken toward remediating the accelerating approach to trainwreck that is mankind's ill-managed and uncontrolled 'footprint' on this planet's environment.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBriefly, humanity has overshot the limits of what is physically and biologically sustainable. That overshoot WILL lead to the collapse of the planetary environment's ability to support not only our species but much of the rest of the biosphere if we do not act rapidly and effectively to reduce our footprint. These conclusions provide reasons for both optimism and alarm: optimism because humanity has demonstrated its capacity to act appropriately in one specific instance; and alarm because thirty years have been largely wasted since the consequences of our failing to act were detailed. There is still time but the need to act quickly and effectively is urgent. The authors demonstrate that the most critical areas needing immediate attention are: population; wasteful, inefficient growth; and pollution. They show how attention to all three simultaneously can result in returning the human footprint on the environment to manageable, sustainable size, while sharply reducing the disparity between human well-being and fostering a generous quality-of-life worldwide. Absent this, the prospects are grim indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three sections, the first outlining in principle the authors' systems analytical approach to understanding the planet's ecology. Their presentation is clear and comprehensible with an abundance of charts and figures that make visualizing the concepts easy. They successfully avoid the pitfalls of many technical presentations by using familiar analogies and largely avoiding professional jargon. As a result readers come away with insights not just into global interconnectedness of inputs, outputs, accumulation and feedback but also the significance of such dynamics in local, even personal, situations.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe second section deals with the authors' updated and revised modeling program, World3, which they utilize to test the plausible effects of changes in human political, economic and social behavior on the environment. Their discussion of World3 focuses on the assumptions for, and results of, a variety calculational scenarios. Details of their latest programming revisions are reserved for an index. Repeatedly they emphasize that their results are NOT prescriptive, but merely descriptive in general terms of likely consequences of humanity's failure or success in rising to meet the issues cited. Again excellent graphics for the various scenarios allow the reader to see at a glance what different approaches toward rectifying past, present and future environmental damage may have.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe final chapters describe options open to humanity that the authors believe have the best chance of avoiding social, economic and probably political collapse in the next century or so. We have a choice: the human experiment, possibly even the biological experiment, that is life on this planet can yet succeed and persist in a sustainable way. But to do so will require our species as whole consciously and deliberately to take immediate, remediating steps, now, seriously and adequately to address the issues we have so far failed to do so effectively. It IS up to us. © Copyright 2005 by AxisofLogic.com.\u003c\/p\u003e -- John N. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In 1972, \u003cem\u003eThe Limits to Growth\u003c\/em\u003e was published as a clarion call to begin changing the way the world worked so we safely made it to 2050-2070. The authors were clear that the path of change needed to begin \"now\" so we made a course correction within the next 30 years. Sadly, the message they wrote got badly misunderstood and by 30 years later, scores of critiques to the book claimed the authors warned that the world would run out of oil and other scare resources by 1990 or 2000. It is time for the world to re-read \u003cem\u003eLimits to Growth\u003c\/em\u003e! The message of 1972 is far more real and relevant in 2004 and we wasted a valuable 30 years of action plans by misreading the message of the first book.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew R. 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Neef (1967): The Theoretical Foundations of Landscape Study (Die theoretischen Grundlagen der Landschaftslehre)15. R. T. T. Forman and M. Godron (1981): Patches and Structural Components for a Landscape Ecology16. P. G. Risser, J. R. Karr, and R. T. T. Forman (1983): Landscape Ecology: Directions and Approaches17. D. L. Urban, R. V. O'Neill, and H. H. Shugart, Jr. (1987): Landscape Ecology: A Hierarchical Perspective Can Help Scientists Understand Spatial PatternsZ. Naveh (1988): Biocybernetic Perspectives of Landscape Ecology and ManagementPart IV. The Central Role of ScaleIntroduction and Review19. J. A. Wiens (1989): Spatial Scaling in Ecology20. J. F. Addicott, J. M. Aho, M. F. Antolin, D. K. Padilla, J. S. Richardson, and D. A. Soluk (1987): Ecological Neighborhoods: Scaling Environmental Patterns21. R. V. O'Neill (1989): Transmutations Across Hierarchical Levels22. V. Meentemeyer (1989): Geographical Perspectives of Space, Time, and Scale23. W. H. Romme and D. H. Knight (1982): Landscape Diversity: The Concept Applied to Yellowstone Park24. G. B. M. Pedroli and G. J. Borger (1990): Historical Land Use and Hydrology: A Case from Eastern Noord-Brabant25. H. R. Delcourt and P. A. Delcourt (1988): Quaternary Landscape Ecology: Relevant Scales in Space and TimePart V. The Analysis of Landscape PatternsIntroduction and Review26. P. Legendre and M.-J. Fortin (1989): Spatial Pattern and Ecological Analysis27. P. A. Burrough (1981): Fractal Dimensions of Landscapes and Other Environmental DataPart VI. Linking Models with Empiricism: Landscape Boundaries and ConnectivityIntroduction and Review28. L. P. Lefkovitch and L. Fahrig (1985): Spatial Characteristics of Habitat Patches and Population Survival29. J. F. Franklin and R. T. T. Forman (1987): Creating Landscape Patterns by Forest Cutting: Ecological Consequences and Principles30. H. R. Pulliam (1988): Sources, Sinks, and Population Regulation31. R. Costanza, F. H. Sklar, and M. L. White (1990): Modeling Coastal Landscape Dynamics32. J. F. Wegner and G. Merriam (1979): Movements by Birds and Small Mammals Between a Wood and Adjoining Farmland Habitats33. L. Hansson (1983): Bird Numbers Across Edges Between Mature Conifer Forest and Clearcuts in Central Sweden34. P. Opdam, G. Rijsdijk, and F. Hustings (1985): Bird Communities in Small Woods in an Agricultural Landscape: Effects of Area and Isolation35. W. T. Peterjohn and D. L. Correll (1984): Nutrient Dynamics in an Agricultural Watershed: Observations on the Role of a Riparian Forest36. R. J. Naiman, H. Decamps, J. Pastor, and C. A. Johnston (1988): The Potential Importance of Boundaries to Fluvial EcosystemsPart VII. SynthesisIntroduction and Review37. M. G. Turner (1989): Landscape Ecology: The Effect of Pattern on Process","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400210653527,"sku":"9780231126809","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231126809.jpg?v=1730470074"},{"product_id":"globalization-and-the-cultures-of-business-in-africa-from-patrimonialism-to-profit-9780253002662","title":"Globalization and the Cultures of Business in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses developing markets for African entrepreneurs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning many disciplines and referenced with endnotes and bibliography, this volume should be in any library with collections on African studies. . . . 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This book brings together some of the world's leading economists to tackle this question, and their responses shed light on how free-market economies work - and what policies most encourage their growth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book brings together an absolutely first-rate group of thinkers, including several Nobel Prize winners, who were invited to a 2003 conference spurred by the publication of William J. Baumol's \u003ci\u003eThe Free-Market Innovation Machine\u003c\/i\u003e. These thought-provoking essays illustrate the potential of Baumol's framework to considerably advance our understanding of what drives entrepreneurship, innovation, and long-term economic growth.\"\u003cb\u003e—Scott Stern, Northwestern University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book's remarkable achievement is to gather some of the brightest minds in economics to discuss some of the most important issues in the field—innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth. It is particularly refreshing to see these topics addressed at a variety of levels and from a variety of research perspectives. The combination of microeconomists and macroeconomists, and even economic historians, is a rare instance of communication across the subfields of economics. This impressive book will be useful to both economics generalists and specialists.\"\u003cb\u003e—Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix INTRODUCTION by Eytan Sheshinski and Robert J. Strom 1   PART I: INTRODUCTORY: THE MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS OF GROWTH    Chapter 1: On Macroeconomic Models of Free-Market Innovation and Growth by Robert M. Solow 15 Chapter 2: The Macro-context of the Microeconomics of Innovation by Kenneth J. Arrow 20   PART II: INSTITUTIONAL BASES FOR CAPITALIST GROWTH    Introduction and Comments by Michael M. Weinstein 31 Chapter 3: Institutional Bases for Capitalist Growth by Douglass C. North 35 Chapter 4: Capitalism and Economic Liberty: The Political Foundations of Economic Growth by Barry R. Weingast 48   PART III: INNOVATION IN MODERN CORPORATIONS    Introduction and Comments by Ying Lowrey 73 Chapter 5: Endogenous Forces in Twentieth-Century America by Nathan Rosenberg 80 Chapter 6: Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Network Structure on Rates of Innovation by Melissa A. Schilling and Corey Phelps 100   PART IV: THE CONTINUING ROLE OF INDEPENDENT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS   Introduction and Comments by Sylvia Nasar 135 Chapter 7: The Small Entrepreneur by Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau 140 Chapter 8: Toward Analysis of Capitalism's Unparalleled Growth: Sources and Mechanism by William J. Baumol 158   PART V: DISSEMINATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE PATENT SYSTEM    Introduction and Comments by Edward N. Wolff 181 Chapter 9: Patents, Licensing, and Entrepreneurship: Effectuating Innovation in Multi-invention Contexts by Deepak Somaya and David J. Teece 185 Chapter 10: The Market for Technology and the Organization of Invention in U.S. History by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 213   PART VI: INNOVATION AND TRADE  Introduction and Comments by Yochanan Shachmurove 247 Chapter 11: Innovation and Its Effects on International Trade by Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol 261 Chapter 12: Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel S. Kortum 276   PART VII: FINANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE FREE-MARKET ECONOMY    Introduction and Comments by Alan S. Blinder 303 Chapter 13: Radical Financial Innovation by Robert J. Shiller 306 Chapter 14: Finance and Innovation by Burton G. Malkiel 324   PART VIII: TOWARD SOME LESSONS    Introduction and Comments by Robert J. Strom 339 Chapter 15: The Economic Performance of Nations: Prosperity Depends on Dynamism, Dynamism on Institutions by Edmund S. Phelps 342 Chapter 16: Pharmaceutical Patenting in Developing Countries and R\u0026amp;D by Eytan Sheshinski 357   Contributors 367 Index 369","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403747795287,"sku":"9780691129457","price":92.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691129457.jpg?v=1730484431"},{"product_id":"the-dollar-trap-9780691161129","title":"The Dollar Trap","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues, the financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and US policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar's importance. This book examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance \u0026amp; Management, Association of American Publishers One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014 \"Thoughtful.\"--Jeff Sommer, New York Times \"[A] surprising argument... [L]ucid.\"--David Wessel, Wall Street Journal \"Richly detailed study of global finances, examining how and why the dollar became the favored currency of international trade.\"--Kirkus \"To understand how the world of international finance works, what the agendas are and what is at stake, this work is indispensable.\"--Henny Sender, Financial Times \"In his authoritative new book on the dollar, Eswar Prasad ... argues that China and other foreign countries that own around half the outstanding US federal government debt are trapped in a risky game where the US may be tempted to renege on its debt obligations by printing more dollars.\"--John Plender, Financial Times \"A lively and compelling analysis on currency wars in the wake of the financial crisis--and the likely persistence of the U.S. dollar as the world's pre-eminent currency.\"--Harold James, Central Banking Journal \"Highly recommended especially for those interested in understanding the paradigm shifts that happened in the international monetary regime in the 1970s and 1980s.\"--Mehmet Kerem Caban, Asian Journal of Public Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables ix  Preface xi  PART ONE Setting the Stage  1. Prologue 3  2. What Is So Special about the Dollar? 11  PART TWO Building Blocks  3. The Paradox of Uphill Capital Flows 31  4. Emerging Markets Get Religion 47  5. The Quest for Safety 63  6. A Trillion Dollar Con Game? 89  PART THREE Inadequate Institutions  7. Currency Wars 125  8. Seeking a Truce on Currency Wars 158  9. It Takes Twenty to Tango 171  10. The Siren Song of Capital Controls 188  11. Safety Nets with Gaping Holes 201  PART FOUR Currency Competition  12. Is the Renminbi Ready for Prime Time? 229  13. Other Contenders Nipping at the Dollar's Heels 262  14. Could the Dollar Hit a Tipping Point and Sink? 283  15. Ultimate Paradox: Fragility Breeds Stability 299  Appendix 309  Notes 317  References 375  Acknowledgments 393  Index 395","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403804844375,"sku":"9780691161129","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691161129.jpg?v=1730484597"},{"product_id":"mass-flourishing-9780691165790","title":"Mass Flourishing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhelps explores what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but \"flourishing\"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013 A \"Best Business Book of the Year for 2013\" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist \"[W]ide-ranging.\"--Benjamin Friedman, New York Review of Books \"The book eloquently discusses the culture of innovation, which can refer to both an entrepreneurial mind-set and the cultural achievements during an age of change... The dismal science becomes a little brighter when Mr. Phelps draws the connections between the economic ferment of the industrial age and the art of Beethoven, Verdi and Rodin.\"--Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal \"[I]nquiring readers, not just academics and social scientists, will enjoy the vast learning in Phelps's sophisticated, sometimes sardonic, look at homo economicus.\"--Publishers Weekly \"Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, defies categorisation. In this extraordinary book--part history, part economics and part philosophy--he proclaims individual enterprise as the defining characteristic of modernity. But he fears this dynamism is lost. One does not have to agree to recognise that Phelps has addressed some of the big questions about our future.\"--Martin Wolf, Financial Times \"Phelps has written a book that transcends the materialist walls of standard economics... It is a book J.M. Keynes would have admired.\"--Paul DeRosa, American Interest \"[F]ascinating, versatile and profound.\"--Felix Martin, New Statesman \"A great book that will annoy big business and absolutely infuriate the left. I loved it.\"--Diana Hunter, Financial World \"Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps' latest book should be read by those seeking a broader context to the challenges currently facing the global economies. In his wide-ranging and insightful book, Professor Phelps draws on historical trends and cultural shifts to present his hypothesis that a lack of dynamism in modern economies lies at the root of the current malaise... Indeed, this remarkable book addresses the central economic question of why some economies thrive while others languish.\"--Declan Jordan, London School of Economics Review of Books \"Few leading economists ... have tried to develop Marx's contention that there is an ineluctable relationship between human psychology and market participation. This relationship is what Phelps describes as human 'flourishing.'\"--Andrew Godley, International Journal of the Economics of Business \"Phelps has produced an insightful work that bridges gaps among economics, sociology, and philosophy to identify countries that have the capabilities to prosper and flourish. This book is an essential read for individuals interested in better assessing countries' economies and competitive advantages.\"--Library Journal \"The author ranges extremely widely and any student of any age will gain something from it, irrespective of political views.\"--Samuel Brittan, Financial Times \"Phelps's book deserves credit for showing that the strength of an economy doesn't depend on small differences in the tax rate, or the tactics of a country's central bank. Phelps rightly points out that economic dynamism depends on much deeper issues like a culture's affinity for risk taking and respect for individual achievement. And he wields convincing statistics that suggest actors in our political economy, from our government, to corporations, to workers, have to some extent lost their reverence for these values.\"--Chris Matthews, Time.com Money \u0026amp; Business \"I ... find his values-driven view of national prosperity fascinating--and applicable to corporate and personal prosperity. If innovation and the prosperity it yields stem from the values to which we subscribe as individuals, organizations, and nations, it stands to reason that we should be paying a great deal of attention to the particular values we adopt and espouse.\"--Theodore Kinni, Strategy-Business.com \"[E]xciting.\"--William Watson, National Post \"[W]ide-ranging... Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change, a distillation of years of research and thought about the changes in values and attitudes that once unleashed wide-scale creativity and risk-taking and which are under severe threat today.\"--Brian Milner, Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"The book is wide-ranging and highly eclectic: in just two pages (pp. 280-281) you'll find references to Cervantes, Shakespeare, Hume, Voltaire, Jefferson, Keats, William Earnest Henley, William James, Walt Whitman, Abraham Maslow, Rawls, Nietzsche, and Lady Gaga! ... Anyone interested in the synthesis of free markets and social justice will find this eminent thinker's distinctive version of that synthesis both illuminating and thought-provoking.\"--Brink Lindsey, Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog \"Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.\"--Arnold Kling, Econlog \"[I]t wasn't until today that I started looking at Mass Flourishing by Edmund Phelps, about the central role of innovation in modern growth and, more, in the enabling of the good life. Obviously I should have read it last week. It looks right on theme, and it is pleasing to pick up an economics book that has a chapter on Aristotle.\"--Enlightened Economist \"One does not have to agree to recognise that Phelps has addressed some of the big questions about our future.\"--Financial Times \"Mass Flourishing offers a brilliant dissection of the origins, causes, and eventual decline of modern capitalism--an inclusive economy characterized by the complex unfettered interactions among diverse indigenous innovators, entrepreneurs, financiers, and consumers... This book should be accessible to general readers and is especially stimulating for graduate students and those interested in economics, sociology, history, political science, and psychology.\"--Choice \"It applies many important aspects of Virginia political economy, making a contribution to understanding not only the positive, but also the normative implications of the rules of the game.\"--Rosolino Candela, Public Choice \"It challenges many of our prized assumptions about what makes economies succeed.\"--David P Goldman, Standpoint \"This is a recommended read, not only because it was written by Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics, but for encouraging reflection on fundamental issues related to modern life and the contemporary interpretation of Aristotle's 'the good life'. The author is such an experienced and iconic guide that it makes the journey through the subjects covered in the book an excellent read for anyone.\"--Jacek Klich, Central Banking Journal \"It is a marvelous book that deserves to be read by everyone, but particularly those entrusted with the design of the European future.\"--Bjorn Wahlroos, Bloomberg Businessweek \"Phelps masterfully utilizes aggregate data on cross-comparative national economic productivity and adeptly complements it with international individual employee satisfaction survey results give the reader a rich empirical tapestry that support his theme.\"--Thomas A. Hemphill, Cato Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii  Introduction: Advent of the Modern Economies 1  PART ONE The Experience of the Modern Economy  1 How Modern Economies Got Their Dynamism 19  2 Material Eff ects of the Modern Economies 41  3 The Experience of Modern Life 55  4 How Modern Economies Formed 77  PART TWO Against the Modern Economy  5 The Lure of Socialism 113  6 The Third Way: Corporatism Right and Left 135  7 Weighing the Rivals on Their Terms 170  8 The Satisfaction of Nations 193  PART THREE Decay and Refounding  9 Markers of Post-1960s Decline 219  10 Understanding the Post-1960s Decline 237  11 The Good Life: Aristotle and the Moderns 268  12 The Good and the Just 289  Epilogue: Regaining the Modern 310  Timeline: Modernism and Modernity 325  Bibliography 337  Acknowledgments 351  Index 353","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403815493975,"sku":"9780691165790","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691165790.jpg?v=1730484628"},{"product_id":"cultures-merging-a-historical-and-economic-critique-of-culture-9780691171043","title":"Cultures Merging  A Historical and Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones's scholarship is enormous, and the book is full of fascinating facts... He writes clearly with an absence of jargon, which makes the book accessible to a wide audience. Economists could certainly benefit from the way it opens up a wider set of perspectives. And ... there is more than enough interesting material to make the book worthwhile for the more general reader.\"--Paul Ormerod, Times Higher Education Supplement \"Jones' book is important because it links our economic past and future with our ideas about culture.\"--Mark Trahant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer \"An accessible, illuminating, and inspiring book.\"--Avner Greif, EH.net \"Eric Jones is intelligent, literate, and eclectic. His comments range over many fields besides economic history, and he writes in a sprightly manner. The book is fun to read, and it engages one of the big issues of economic history: the role of culture in economic affairs.\"--Peter Temin, Economic History Review \"Eric L. Jones has written an interesting and well-argued critique of two positions that he believes are well entrenched in the economic history literature. The first, which he terms 'cultural nullity', is widely held by economists and assigns no or at best a trivial role to culture in explaining economic outcomes. Second, Jones criticizes those (often historians) who think of a 'cultural fixity', in which an unchanging culture dominates every other aspect of life... Jones marshals an impressive and at times amusing range of illustrations of the fluidity of cultures.\"--Harold James, International History Review \"Cultures Merging is a remarkable historical tour de force presenting a wealth of argument to indicate the role of economic forces in the modification of culture and vice versa.\"--Arthur Webb, Journal of Cultural Economics \"Jones ... makes a compelling argument for the special place of literature in understanding these dialectics of poverty.\"--John Marsh, The Minnesota Review \"Jones writes in a vivid, attractive manner, expressing sometimes trenchant arguments on specific topics... His book has a syncretic and eclectic feel, and conveys a sense of its author as someone who, having established his standing in his previous, more focused work, now revels in his ability to survey that of another generation or two of scholars, and to tell his readers which leads to follow and which to consider useless.\"--Gianfranco Poggi, Sociologica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii     PART I CULTURAL ANALYSIS     Chapter 1: The Revival of Cultural Explanation 3  Chapter 2: Cultures Fluid and Sticky 31  Chapter 3: Culture as Mediocrity 52  Chapter 4: The Means of Merging 85  Chapter 5: Institutions as Cryptogams 108      PART II CULTURAL COMMENTARY     Chapter 6: Cultures of Immigration 135  Chapter 7: East Asia's Experience 161  Chapter 8: Economic Changes, Cultural Responses 194  Chapter 9: Cultural Protection 223      PART III CONCLUSION     Chapter 10: Culture as Reciprocity 255      Bibliography 273  Index 291","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403828568407,"sku":"9780691171043","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691171043.jpg?v=1730484663"},{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth-the-u-s-standard-of-living-since-the-civil-war-9780691175805","title":"The Rise and Fall of American Growth  The U.S.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016 One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of Foreign Affairs' Editors' Picks 2016 One of The Economist's Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016 One of The Wall Street Journal's \"The 20 Books That Defined Our Year\" 2016 One of Bloomberg View's \"Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds,\" chosen by Cass Sunstein #36 on Bloomberg's \"50 Most Influential\" List One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in History One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy One of the Washington Post's Best Economics Books 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of The NewYorker.com Page-Turner blog's \"The Books We Loved in 2016\" Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth... is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year.\"--Rana Foroohar, Time \"This is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis... [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past.\"--Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review \"[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages.\"--Neil Irwin, New York Times \"Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries... The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period... If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordon's landmark study.\"--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books \"Mr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis.\"--Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished.\"--Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal \"A masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in today's political economy.\"--Kirkus \"Normally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordon's conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice.\"--Matthew Yglesias, Vox \"Magnificent... Gordon presents his case... with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data... Even if history changes direction... this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism.\"--Economist \"Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordon's list is a good place to start.\"--David Wessel, WSJ.com's Think Tank blog \"[W]hat may be the year's most important book on economics has already been published... What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits.\"--Robert Samuelson, Washington Post \"Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an extraordinary work of economic scholarship... Moreover, this is one of the rare economics books that is on the one hand deeply analytical ... And on the other a pleasure to read... [A] landmark work.\"--Lawrence Summers, Prospect \"Ambitious... The hefty tome, minutely detailed yet dauntingly broad in scope, offers a lively portrayal of the evolution of American living standards since the Civil War.\"--Eduardo Porter, New York Times \"Two years ago a huge book on economics took the world by storm. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... became a surprise bestseller... Robert Gordon's tome on American economic growth stretches to 768 pages and its central message is arguably more important.\"--David Smith, Sunday Times \"A landmark new book.\"--Gavin Kelly, The Guardian \"Looking ahead, judging presidents by policies rather than outcomes may be all the more important. In a new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the economist Robert Gordon argues that we are in the midst of an era of meager technological change. Yes, we now have smartphones and Twitter, but previous generations introduced electric lighting, indoor plumbing and the internal combustion engine. In Mr. Gordon's view, technological change is just not what it used to be, and we had better get used to slower growth in productivity and incomes.\"--N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is likely to be the most interesting and important economics book of the year. It provides a splendid analytic take on the potency of past economic growth, which transformed the world from the end of the nineteenth century onward... Gordon's book serves as a powerful reminder that the U.S. economy really has gone through a protracted slowdown and that this decline has been caused by the stagnation in technological progress.\"--Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs \"[A]n important new book.\"--Martin Ford, Huffington Post \"[A] lightning bolt of a new book.\"--Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect \"So powerful and intriguing are the facts and arguments marshaled by Gordon that even informed critics who think he is wrong recommend that readers plow through his The Rise and Fall of American Growth, with its 60 graphics and 64 tables spread over more than 700 pages. You don't need to be an economist to appreciate or understand the book. His thesis is straightforward.\"--David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America.com \"What is novel about Gordon's approach to this problem is that he doesn't try to find political causes for our economic woes... [E]xhaustive and sweeping in scope, and novel in its thinking about growth.\"--Chris Matthews, Fortune.com \"[A] fascinating new book.\"--Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe \"One of the most important books of recent years... Powerful and impressive.\"--Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View \"This is a tremendous, sobering piece of research, which does a lot to explain the febrile, nervous state of modern Western democracies.\"--Marcus Tanner, The Independent \"A new book by economist Robert Gordon--The Rise and Fall of American Growth--is causing quite a stir.\"--City A.M. \"If he's right, and one links this with growing income inequality, our would-be leaders will have difficulty in making the case for achieving the American dream through steady incremental progress achieved through collaboration and political compromise.\"--Michael Hoffmann, Desert Sun \"Robert Gordon's new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is masterful... Gordon skillfully lays out myriad information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal.\"--Edward Lotterman, St. Paul Pioneer Press \"[I]mpressive.\"--Peter Martin, Sydney Morning Herald \"In his unsettling new book, Gordon, who teaches at Northwestern, weighs in on the role of technology in the U.S. over the past century-and-a-half. He does so forcefully, so forcefully, in fact, as to wipe the smiles off the faces of most techno-optimists, myself included.\"--Peter A. Coclanis, Charlotte Observer \"[A] thoughtful new book.\"--David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is this year's equivalent to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century: an essential read for all economists, who are unanimously floored by its boldness and scope even if they don't agree with its conclusions.\"--Adam Davidson, New York Times Magazine \"Gordon makes a compelling case for why the era of fast growth in America ended around 1970 and will not return in the foreseeable future, if ever.\"--Dick Meyer, DecodeDC \"Gordon argues that we are not going to get another surge soon and that there are several headwinds that are going to work against faster growth, including income inequality, education as a differentiator and not an equalizer, the debt overhang, and demography.\"--John Mason, TheStreet.com \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] challenges every political claim, and every pundit's remedy, regarding how to get the lackluster American economy to boom again in the decades ahead, as it once did a half-century or more ago... [The book] represents the culmination of Gordon's many years of investigation into this key economic question of our age, namely: 'Why is it that the American economy has never been able to return to the happy boom years of our grandparents' time?' Why is it that, decade after decade, administration after administration, annualized productivity growth has only been about one-half to one-third that of the age of Truman and Eisenhower?\"--Paul Kennedy, Tribune Content Agency \"[M]asterful... Gordon skillfully lays out information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal... The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a rare example of a work with solid economics that can be understood, and enjoyed, by nearly any lay person.\"--Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman \"As an economic historian, Gordon is beyond reproach.\"--Edward Luce, Financial Times \"Provocative.\"--Associated Press \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is a deep dive into the past with an eye to the future... [The book] is part of a fascinating debate about future prospects for the American economy.\"--Knowledge@Wharton \"[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] has set the wonky world of economics aflame.\"--Ryan Craig, TechCrunch \"Magisterial.\"--John Kay, Financial Times \"[A] contentious new book.\"--Margaret Wente, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"[A] fabulous new book... [I]mpressive.\"--Dr. Mike Walden, Morganton News Herald \"Northwestern Bob Gordon's new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, offers a deeper explanation for the underlying mechanics behind slowed economic growth.\"--Jon Hartley, Forbes.com \"So much of what the presidential candidates and the American people want to accomplish over the next four years and beyond depends on the U.S. economy growing faster, and more inclusively, than it has in recent years. This year's hot economics book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by one of America's most distinguished macroeconomists, Robert Gordon, casts a pall on whether this is possible, arguing that the U.S. had a golden century of increasing innovation from roughly 1870 to 1970, but this was unique.\"--Robert Litan, Fortune.com \"Gordon's book offers the definitive account of how the many technological innovations between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved life in the United States.\"--Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas blog \"[M]agiserial... The Northwestern University professor lays out the case that the productivity miracle underlying the American way of life was largely a one-time deal.\"--Matt Phillips, Quartz \"Robert Gordon's new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth has taken the economics world by storm this winter.\"--Myles Udland, Business Insider \"[M]assive.\"--Ben Casselman, FiveThirty Eight \"[G]roundbreaking.\"--Zeeshan Aleem, Mic \"With a painstaking--and fascinating--historical analysis of American productivity, [Gordon] argues that the innovations of today pale in comparison to earlier in our history and that we might actually be entering a period of prolonged stagnation. He may very well be right.\"--Greg Satell, Forbes.com \"[P]rovocative.\"--Barrie McKenna, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"[I]nfluential.\"--Martin Neil Baily, Fortune.com \"[A] stimulating book.\"--George Will, Washington Post \"Compulsive reading.\"--Andrew Hilton, Financial World \"Gordon is not an alarmist, far from it. His is a sober voice of concern, of caution, which needs to be heard by those in the helm in America. And a fascinating lesson for ambitious and growing countries like India.\"--Dr R Balashankar, Sunday Guardian \"[A] fascinating convergence of green and mainstream thought.\"--Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay Journal \"[T]his panoramic book makes good reading.\"--Shane Greenstein, Harvard Magazine \"The book's great contribution is the tapestry it weaves of all the innovations that changed most Americans' lives beyond recognition in the century from 1870 to 1970.\"--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is unquestionably an important book that raises fundamental questions about the United States' economy and society.\"--New Criterion \"[A] masterpiece.\"--Martin Wolf, Financial Times \"[An] impressive book... Gordon's book provides sufficient ammunition to show the colossal problems facing capitalism.\"--Socialism Today \"Rich with detailed information, meticulous observations, and even anecdotes and stories ... a fascinating read.\"--Ricardo F. Levi, Corriere della Sera \"The Rise and Fall of American Growth is essential reading for anyone interested in economics.\"--Choice \"In an important new book, economist Robert Gordon makes the case for pessimism. He believes that technologies like smartphones, robots, and artificial intelligence aren't going to have the kind of big impact on the economy that earlier inventions--like the internal combustion engine and electricity--did.\"--Timothy B. Lee, Vox \"Robert Gordon has written an engaging economic-based history of America... Gordon is to be commended for helping to stimulate a national debate on the current low level of economic productivity.\"--Allan Hauer, Innovation: The Journal of Technology \u0026amp; Commercialization \"If you want to see how far we have come and how tough life was a century and a half ago, read Gordon's book.\"--David R. Henderson, Regulation \"A fantastic read.\"--Bill Gates, GatesNotes \"The book is well written, and one can only be in awe of Gordon's mastery of the factual history of the American standard of living.\"--Robert A. Margo, EH.net \"Monumental.\"--John Cassidy, NewYorker.com \"Zeitgeist-defining.\"--Myles Udland, Business Insider \"[A] magisterial treatise.\"--Nick Gillespie, Reason.com \"[A]n essential read for anyone interested not only in US economic history but also American economic prospects ... a tremendous achievement.\"--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist \"A comprehensive history of American economic growth.\"--Eric Rauchway, American Prospect \"Professor Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a magisterial volume that will benefit any serious student of economics, demographics or history.\"--Wendell Cox, New Geography \"A wonderful new book.\"--Jeff Sachs, Boston Globe \"The most important economics book of 2016.\"--Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune \"This spectacular history traces the rise and the plateau of the American economy since industrialization.\"--Jay Weiser, Weekly Standard \"[A] landmark book... An impressive history of how the American people progressed in their standards of living and productivity in the 'golden century' of 1870-1970.\"--Stephen M. Millett, Strategy \u0026amp; Leadership \"Gordon's encyclopedic The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a new history of modern U.S. economic life, [is] perhaps the best yet written.\"--Jonathan Levy, Dissent \"One of our greatest economic historians... Gordon's exhaustive research program ... has knocked me back on my intellectual heels.\"--J. Bradford DeLong, Strategy + Business \"This is the most important book on economics in many years.\"--Martin Wolf, Financial Times \"Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth set out a thesis of technological diminishing returns that does much to explain an age of economic pessimism.\"--Lorien Kite, Financial Times \"In the course of Gordon's book, a vivid picture of everyday life as our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents lived it emerges... What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did. Reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth, I thought a lot about my grandparents. Gordon's book has made their lives more real to me.\"--Joshua Rothman, NewYorker.com's Page-Turner blog \"Magisterial... While the book has gotten attention because of its bold projection of slow growth in the future, this is actually just one small element of a magnificent and detailed presentation of how our economy has changed since 1870. Most people don't fully appreciate what life was like in the past and Gordon gives a blow-by-blow description of how people lived in America from 1870 on. In addition, he carefully explains how each new innovation was created and how its adoption changed people's lives.\"--Stephen Rose, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas \"Gordon constructs a strong case using conventional economic principles and exacting data measurement.\"--Don Pittis, CBC News \"Gordon's genius is to weave together economic history with the story of the technology, know-how, politic, demographics and medicine that made the astonishing progress of the US perhaps the most remarkable ever.\"--Sean O'Grady, The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth 1  PART I. 1870-1940-THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME 25  2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 27  3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It 62  4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked 94  5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements 129  6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment 172  7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death 206  8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home 247  9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government 288  Entr'acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution 319  PART II. 1940-2015-THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH 329  10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing 331  11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above 374  12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone 409  13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook 441  14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine 461  15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job 498  Entr'acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth 522  PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH 533  16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? 535  17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? 566  18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl 605  Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead 641  Acknowledgments 653  Data Appendix 657  Notes 667  References 717  Credits 741  Index 745","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403845706071,"sku":"9780691175805","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691175805.jpg?v=1730484701"},{"product_id":"the-seven-years-war-and-the-old-regime-in-france-the-economic-and-financial-toll-9780691610108","title":"The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated. 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