EAN: 9781399803427

LONG BRAD DE - GEBRAUCHT SLOUCHING TOWARDS UTOP...

From one of the world's leading economists  a grand narrative of the century that made us
richer than ever  yet left us unsatisfied.  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 have presumed we would use such
powers to build utopia  but it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended  the world instead saw global
warming  economic depression  uncertainty  inequality  and broad rejection of the status quo. 
Slouching Towards Utopia tells the sweeping story of how this unprecedented explosion?of
material wealth?occurred ?how it transformed the globe  and?why?it?failed to deliver us to
utopia.?Of remarkable breadth and ambition ?it?reveals how the last century was much less?a
march of progress?than?a slouch?in the right direction.

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