Capitalism in America An Economic History of the United States 1st edition by Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge ISBN 0735222460 978-0735222465

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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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