Economic Growth and the Environment Prompt: Economic growth implies rising incomes, rising living standards (as measured by per-capita GDP), and low levels of unemployment. In your opinion, should we abandon the clean air and clean water acts if doing so will generate increased economic growth in the short-run?
Describe how demographic characteristics like race, gender, class, occupation, and location (urban vs. rural, for example) shaped the adoption of these technologies.
Technological advances made between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved living standards, quality of life, and workplace productivity. Some historians and economists have argued that we are unlikely to see such dramatic improvements in the future. Choose three new technological systems developed in this period. Explain how these improved living standards, quality of life, and workplace […]