Slouching Towards Utopia - Softcover

J. Bradford DeLong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399803425 ISBN 13: 9781399803427

Publisher: Basic Books | Hachette, 2022

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books | Hachette
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399803425
• ISBN 13: 9781399803427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624