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ISBN 10: 0735222460
ISBN 13: 978-0735222465
Author: Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America’s evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
From even the start of his fabled career, Alan Greenspan was duly famous for his deep understanding of even the most arcane corners of the American economy, and his restless curiosity to know even more. To the extent possible, he has made a science of understanding how the US economy works almost as a living organism–how it grows and changes, surges and stalls. He has made a particular study of the question of productivity growth, at the heart of which is the riddle of innovation. Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite?
In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible moral failings. Every crucial debate is here–from the role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact of FDR’s New Deal to America’s violent mood swings in its openness to global trade and its impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have driven this country to unprecedented heights of power and prosperity.
At heart, the authors argue, America’s genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations past. A sense of justice and human decency demands that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be protected, but America has always accepted more pain for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There’s no better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most pressing question we face, that of whether the United States will preserve its preeminence, or see its leadership pass to other, inevitably less democratic powers.
Capitalism in America An Economic History of the United States 1st Table of contents:
One: A Commercial Republic
Scraping a Living
Rip Van Winkle
The Culture of Growth
A Restless People
Two: The Two Americas
Hamilton Versus Jefferson
North Versus South
An Unequal Fight
One Nation . . . Under Capitalism
Three: The Triumph of Capitalism
Prometheus Unbound
The Age of Innovation
The Rise of the West
Four: The Age of Giants
“The Greatest Single Discovery of Modern Times”
The Urge to Merge
The Evolution of the Corporation
Five: The Revolt Against Laissez-Faire
The World According to Grover
Capitalism Versus Laissez-Faire
Rising Discontent
The Cult of Government
The Closing of the Frontier
Energy in the Executive
The New World Versus the Old
Six: The Business of America Is Business
Making Sense of the Twenties
The Horseless Carriage
The March of the Electronic Servants
The Wireless Age
The Affluent Society
The Company Goes Public
Henry Ford Versus Alfred Sloan
America Is Flat
The End of an Era
Seven: The Great Depression
What Caused the Great Depression?
Not Rising to the Challenge
Making History
Evaluating the New Deal
From Politics to Economics
Business and the Depression
FDR’s Wartime Renaissance
The Arsenal of Capitalism
Eight: The Golden Age of Growth
War and Peace
From Brawn to Brain
Managerial Capitalism
In Search of Productivity
Corporate Imperialism
Intimations of Mortality
Nine: Stagflation
From Hubris to Nemesis
Decline and Fall
Urbis Et Orbis
It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
Ten: The Age of Optimism
Business Unbound
After Reagan
Reviving the Entrepreneurial Spirit
The Financial Revolution
Globalization
The Electronic Frontier
The Fracking Revolution
The New Workforce
“We Are Fortunate to Be Alive at This Moment in History”
Eleven: The Great Recession
The Financial Crisis
The Roots of the Crisis
The Great Stagnation
Twelve: America’s Fading Dynamism
Potholes Versus Progress
Death from Despair
Explaining Stagnation
Enter Trump
Conclusion
The Problem with Creative Destruction
From Creative Destruction to Mass Prosperity
Technology Versus Entitlements
Fixing America’s Growth Machine
Unlocking American Growth
Appendix: Data and Methodology
Photographs and Illustrations
Before the Industrial Revolution, People Lived in Close Proximity to the Natural World
1800–1850: The North Was a Hive of Entrepreneurial Activity
The South Was a Slave Economy
The Spread of People Across the Continent
The Transportation Systems That United the Country
The Rise of Big Business
The Giants of American Business
The Backlash Against Business
The Rise of Mass Production and Mass Consumption
The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Wartime Boom
The Golden Age of Growth
America’s Tech Giants Are as Dominant as Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil Were in the Gilded
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