Slouching Towards Utopia - An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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| Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 624 |
| Format | 15,1 x 3,9 x 20,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781399803434 |
| Bestell-Nr | 39980343UA |
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From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied.
Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation, and creatively destroying the economy again and again.
Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of the major economic and technological shifts of the 20th century in a bold and ambitious, grand narrative. In vivid and compelling detail, DeLong charts the unprecedented explosion of material wealth after 1870 which transformed living st andards around the world, freeing humanity from centuries of poverty, but paradoxically has left us now with unprecedented inequality, global warming, and widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo.
How did the long twentieth century fail to deliver the utopia our ancestors believed would be the inevitable result of such material wellbeing?
How did humanity end up less on a march to progress than a slouch in the right direction?
And what can we learn from the past in pursuit of a better world?
Rezension:
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'