It’s Not in Your Head: The World Really Is Getting Worse

...Narratives that see widespread economic and technological stagnation setting in sometime around the mid-1970s have become fairly common. And it’s pretty clear that the 1970s were some sort of inflection point, a time when we fell off established income, innovation, and progress curves on a number of fronts. The big question is why....

A book exerpt by Andrew Potter, from On Decline, with a pretty good discussion, set of references, and treatment of the question.

https://thewalrus.ca/its-not-in-your-head-the-world-really-is-getting-worse/

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