Chapter 18 Long-Term Economic Growth
II. Interesting Sites
A.
I.
How the Government Dealt With Past Recessions
from the
The
New York Times
B.
Industrial Revolution and the Standard
of Living
by Clark Nardinelli
C.
The First Measured Century
Ben Wattenberg's classic is a must for those interested
in the economic history of the 20th
century.
D. Escape
from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100”
by Robert William Fogel. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
E. annual report on income, poverty
and health insurance
Census Bureau’s 2008
F.
e-mail
Walter with additional sites.
II. Analyzing recent economic growth
A. Measurement will be in nominal,
real, and per capita amounts.
B. Real per capita GDP, DPI, Total Private Wages, Manufacturing Wages and
spending on Social Security, Medicare, and
Medicaid will be studied.
C.
View Bradford
DeLong's( USC Berkley) dynamic presentation of
GDP growth
per
capita since 1900.
Real Per Capita Growth in GDP and DPI
1929-2010
Some of the data on these
charts is projected for Q, from the 2011 Economic
Report of the President
