Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

624 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics informative slow-paced
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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 e...

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