that postwar American power and prosperity were natural and permanent" (63). We now see that this prosperity was not natural and that it has to be earned, and the question is whether the American system will be able to change sufficiently to earn back the growth of the past.
The nature of the argument seems clear, and we hear today voices on both sides--either we can and will find new ways of doing business and new businesses to do so that we can again attain the growth we once enjoyed, or we must f
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