Slouching Towards Utopia
Subtitle: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9780465019595
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Economic history; Economic development; Economic policy
First sentence: What I call the “long twentieth century” started with the watershed-crossing events of around 1870—the triple emergence of globalization, the industrial research lab, and the modern corporation—which ushered in changes that began to pull the world out of the dire poverty that had been humanity’s lot for the previous ten thousand years, since the discovery of agriculture.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: My Grand Narrative
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Globalizing the World
pagenum: 27; label: 2
title: Revving Up the Engine of Technology-Driven Growth
pagenum: 59; label: 3
title: Democratizing the Global North
pagenum: 85; label: 4
title: Global Empires
pagenum: 115; label: 5
title: World War I
pagenum: 141; label: 6
title: Roaring Twenties
pagenum: 165; label: 7
title: The Great Depression
pagenum: 205; label: 8
title: Really-Existing Socialism
pagenum: 235; label: 9
title: Fascism and Nazism
pagenum: 259; label: 10
title: World War II
pagenum: 283; label: 11
title: The Cold War of Hostile Yet Coexisting Systems
pagenum: 311; label: 12
title: False (and True) Starts to Economic Development in the Global South
pagenum: 339; label: 13
title: Inclusion
pagenum: 373; label: 14
title: Thirty Glorious Years of Social Democracy
pagenum: 395; label: 15
title: The Neoliberal Turn
pagenum: 427; label: 16
title: Reglobalization, Information Technology, and Hyperglobalization
pagenum: 461; label: 17
title: Great Recession and Anemic Recovery
pagenum: 485; title: Conclusion: Are We Still Slouching Towards Utopia?
pagenum: 519; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 537; title: Notes
pagenum: 539; title: Index
pagenum: 579