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How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the A

This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contr

Foreword by President George W. Bush With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring Amer

This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centur

In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and