Free Acceess to Get Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

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An instant? New York Times and Wall Street Journal ?bestseller from one of the world?s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied?A magisterial history.???Paul KrugmanNamed a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast CompanyBefore 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of?invention?offset by a growing population. Then came a great invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have?used?such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When?1870?2010?ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.??Economist?Brad DeLong?s Slouching Towards Utopia ?tells the story of?how?this unprecedented?explosion?of material wealth?occurred,?how it transformed the

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