Slouching towards Utopia an economic history of the twentieth century
"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 hav...
| Main Author: | DeLong, J. Bradford, 1960- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
2022
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: My grand narrative
- Globalizing the world
- Revving up the engine of technology-driven growth
- Democratizing the global north
- Global empires
- World War I
- Roaring twenties
- The great depression
- Really-existing socialism
- Fascism and Nazism
- World War II
- The Cold War of hostile yet coexisting systems
- False (and true) starts to economic development in the global south
- Inclusion
- Thirty glorious years of social democracy
- The neoliberal turn
- Reglobalization, information technology, and hyperglobalization
- Great recession and anemic recovery
- Conclusion: Are we still slouching towards Utopia?.