Straight Talk on Trade

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 --
Data appendix.