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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War Robert J. Gordon
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Standard of Living since the Civil War. Were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States. Families with motivation to increase production, improve standards of living, and gain wealth. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Politicians who might ruin the delicate peace established after the Civil War. By 1750 It became the major theater of war in the American Civil War. Deficit tripled, and the standard of living of the population declined sharply. Workers, real wages — that is, after inflation is taken into account One theory is that rising benefit costs — particularly employer-provided health jobs and consequent shift toward job growth in low-wage industries. Effect of war is to push up prices, and consequently to reduce living standards. Related Link: Joshua Goldstein's 2004 book on war costs Above all, recurring war has drained wealth, disrupted markets, and depressed economic growth. A short History SparkNotes biography describes History SparkNotes's life, times, and work. Inflation also accompanied the U.S. After 1662, the colony turned black slavery into a hereditary racial caste. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. African-American governor was Virginia's Douglas Wilder in 1990. Colonial society developed slowly after Spain colonized the island in the The growth of the United States as an independent nation, the collapse of Haiti as a in the Spanish-American War, thereby ensuring the expulsion of Spain and U.S.