Julia Ott on the new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by economist Robert Gordon

Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and co-director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School, Julia Ott wrote a recent piece in Public Books on how unfettered capitalism is incapable of addressing our most pressing problems, explaining that “only the foolhardy would look to private-sector innovation to save our economy from stagnation, our planet from climate disaster, or our democracy from social conflict rooted in inequality.”

Read Choosing Growth in Public Books.