J Bradford DeLong - 2022 - Slouching Towards Utopia (History)

Slouching Towards Utopia - J. Bradford DeLong - 2022

An Economic History of the Twentieth Century







By: J. Bradford DeLong

Narrated by: Allan Aquino

Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 09-06-22

Categories: History, Economic History, Americas

Language: English

Publisher: Basic Books

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo







From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied  



Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. 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 deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.



©2022 J. Bradford DeLong (P)2022 Basic Books



Critic Reviews



“Brad DeLong learnedly and grippingly tells the story of how all the economic growth since 1870 has created a global economy that today satisfies no one’s ideas of fairness. The long journey toward economic justice and more equal rights and opportunities for all shall and will continue.”—Thomas Piketty, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century



“What a joy to finally have Brad DeLong’s masterful interpretation of twentieth-century economic history down on paper. Slouching Towards Utopia is engaging, important, and awe-inspiring in its breadth and creativity.”—Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley



“History provides the only data we have for charting a course forward in these turbulent times. I have not seen a more revealing and illuminating book about economics and what it means in a very long time. Slouching Towards Utopia should be required reading for anybody who cares about the future of the global system, and that should be everyone.”—Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University











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