Slouching Towards Utopia Audiobook Libro.fm

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From one of the worlds leading economists agrand narrative of the century thatmadeusricherthanever yet left us unsatisfied

Before 1870 humanity lived in dire poverty with a slow crawl ofinventionoffset 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 have presumed we would haveusedsuch powers to build utopia But it was not so When18702010ended the world instead saw global warming economic depression uncertainty and inequality and broad rejection of the status quo

EconomistBrad DeLongs Slouching Towards Utopiatells the story ofhowthis unprecedentedexplosionof material wealthoccurredhow it transformed the globeandwhyitfailed todeliver us toutopiaOfremarkable breadth and ambitionitrevealsthelastcentury to have been lessa march of progressthana slouchin the right direction