{"product_id":"slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","title":"Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Bradford DeLong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A magisterial history.\"--​Paul Krugman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e; \u003cbr\u003e Economist Brad DeLong's \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This is a book of remarkable breadth and ambition, revealing the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Bradford DeLong\u003c\/b\u003e, an economic historian, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Clinton administration. He writes a widely read economics blog, now at braddelong.substack.com. He lives in Berkeley, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 624\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45761762033861,"sku":"9780465019595","price":43.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/z8T3AtKZ1m9780465019595.webp?v=1781235748","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}