Slouching Towards Utopia av Brad de Long

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<p><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> AND <i>WALL STREET JOURNAL </i>BESTSELLER<br><br>LONGLISTED FOR THE <i>FINANCIAL TIMES </i>BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR<br><br>A <i>FINANCIAL TIMES </i>BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND <i>THE ECONOMIST</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Slouching Towards Utopia</i> 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 w