Some inventions are more important than others.” This is the most important point made by Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in his masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of American Growth . This book provides a deep analysis of the transformation of US economic life between 1870 and 1970 and the subsequent slowdown. Growth is neither inevitable nor steady. Ours is an age of disappointing growth because the technological breakthroughs are relatively narrow.
“有些發明比其他發明更重要。”這是西北大學(Northwestern University)的羅伯特?戈登(Robert Gordon)在其著作《美國增長的起落》(The Rise and Fall of American Growth)中提出的最重要觀點。這本書對1870至1970年間美國經濟轉型及隨后的放緩進行了深入分析。增長既非必然,也不會勻速。由于技術突破相對狹窄,我們正處于一個增長令人失望的時代。