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I don’t have time to find the exact pages but the Rise and Fall of American Growth tries to quantify real realized quality of life gains through what the author
by wincy 5y ago
I don’t have time to find the exact pages but the Rise and Fall of American Growth tries to quantify real realized quality of life gains through what the author Robert Gordon calls “the special century”, 1870-1970.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26634594-the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26634594-the-rise-and-fa...
- ghaff 5y agoThere's a graph in the book Why the West Rules--for Now that charts a "social development" index from hunter-gatherer times until today. (Basically a complicated distillation of various measures of civilization.) The bottom line is that if you zoom out essentially nothing happened for thousands and thousands of years until the industrial revolution.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoExponential growth is always like that. The question is, what happens on a log scale? Does it still jump at the industrial revolution? And what has happened since then?