Land of Promise

Land of Promise is a book that discusses the economic history of the United States of America. A time frame that ranges from the Revolutionary War to the Great Recession, it extends to the era of technology-driven changes that led to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures. It includes the transformation of emerging technology, including the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, and computer technology. Land of Promise explains how the US economy has flourished, and how the government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. This demonstrates how Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.