Entering the "America Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003," a new exhibit at the Whitney Museum, one immediately encounters a bright, gleaming portrait of New York City's Sept.

For a decade after the global financial crisis of 2007-09 rich-world productivity growth was, by historical standards, dead.

Foreword / Maxwell L. Anderson -- American effect / Lawrence Rinder -- Freedom / Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- Abundance / Luc Sante -- American tribalism / Caryl Phillips -- Exile and resistance / Nawal ...