num_pages: 624
description: An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the worlds leading economists offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever but left us unsatisfiedA magisterial history.Paul KrugmanNamed a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast CompanyBefore 1870 humanity lived in dire poverty with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great 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 18702010 ended the world instead saw global warming; economic depression uncertainty and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo. Economist Brad DeLongs 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.
language: English
title: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
publisher: Basic Books