<ul><li>Uses a comparative development economic approach – not a detailed economic history, but a reasoned survey of the pivotal points in US economic development</li><li>Presents new interpretative tools, such as flow charts regarding the economic consequences of the frontier, the Fordist model of growth, and the stock-flow relations that heavily contributed to the Great Recession of 2008-9</li><li>Shows the shifts in global power occurring from 1870 to 2017 and the changing role played by the United States in the international arena</li><li>Outlines the main sources of strength and of weakness of the US economy and their changes over time</li><li>Includes an in-depth analysis of the Great Depression and of the recent Great Recession</li><li>Examines the widening of economic inequalities since the 1980s</li><li>Compares the economic policies of Obama and Trump</li><li>Takes an ‘outsider-looking-in’ approach from an American-trained, leading Italian academic incomparative economics</li></ul> |