Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century DeLong J. Bradford
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century DeLong J. Bradford From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,…
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century DeLong J. Bradford
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfiedBefore 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again.
When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.Economist Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to But it was not so.
Slouching Towards Utopia
Slouching Towards Utopia
Slouching Towards Utopia