Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 667-743) e índice.

Introduction: the ascent and descent of growth -- Part I. 1870-1940--The great inventions create a revolution inside and outside the home. The starting point: life and work in 1870 -- What they ate and wore and where they bought it -- The American home: from dark and isolated to bright and networked -- Motors overtake horses and rail: inventions and incremental improvements -- From telegraph to talkies: information, communication, and entertainment -- Nasty, brutish, and short: illness and early death -- Working conditions on the job and at home -- Taking and mitigating risks: consumer credit, insurance, and the government -- Entr'acte. The midcentury shift from revolution to evolution -- Part II. 1940-2015--The Golden Age and the early warnings of slower growth. Fast food, synthetic fibers, and split-level subdivisions: the slowing transformation of food, clothing, and housing -- See the USA in your Chevrolet or from a plane flying high above -- Entertainment and communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone -- Computers and the internet from the mainframe to Facebook -- Antibiotics, CT scans, and the evolution of health and medicine -- Work, youth, and retirement at home and on the job -- Entr'acte. Toward an understanding of slower growth -- Part III. The sources of faster and slower growth. The great leap forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: what set of miracles created it? -- Innovation: can the future match the great inventions of the past? -- Inequality and the other headwinds: long-run American economic growth slows to a crawl -- Postscript: America's growth achievement and the path ahead.