According to Ernesto Siroli, a magazine came out in the mid 1800s and predicted that 100 years into the future New York would cease to exist. Why did they predict this and why were they ultimately wrong in their prediction?

Why are many people now living at the highest level of material prosperity in history? Is this level of consumption sustainable? How can we consume less while improving our quality of life?

"Innovation by the Entrepreneur" argued Schumpeter, leads to gales of "creative destruction" as innovations cause old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question is not "how capitalism administers existing structures,…[but] how it creates and destroys them." This creative destruction, he believed, causes continuous progress and improves the standards of living for everyone." Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950Links to an external site. In terms a little more modern than Shumpater's, Dr. Abhijeett Desai explains that the predominant form of innovation can look disruptive, but is, in fact, transformational innovation. Explore Dr. Desai's thinking in Transformative Innovations vs. Disruptive InnovationLinks to an external site..

True or false? Economic change during the Civil War was part of Charles and Mary Beard meant when they called the war a second American revolution. The textbook makes a case that while the war accelerated prewar trends of innovation in modernization, it was hardly revolutionary in terms of changing the fundamental direction of the economy. And while statistically the war neither accelerated nor retarded long-term economic growth, it did Ladik we alter the section of the tribulation of wealth and output, very much to the advantage of the north