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Duke university department of political science 21,489 views. Original title isbn 9780525953739 published on 2011. In 2011 he galvanised washington with the great stagnation, in which he argued that america has used up the lowhanging fruit of free land, abundant labour and new technologies. His outlook is fairly libertarian, but its not ivorytower in fact, hes been accused of cuteonomics for daring to. Following on what luke lea mentioned, the us economy hasnt stagnated. How america ate all the lowhanging fruit of modern history,got sick, and will. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will.
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