" Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages", by Carlotta Perez.

ECONOMIST: Acknowledgements

The years after 1983, and after 1992, are, of course, major golden ages in modern American economic history, just as the stagflation years of 1969-82 and the recessionary early 1990s were flops.

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It is also a reasonable corollary of this hypothesis that golden ages of freedom and prosperity occur when events and technological innovations right the balance of power between the state and individuals.

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But Golden Ages rarely last long.

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As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.

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