Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Description : An instant&nbspNewYork Times and Wall Street Journal&nbspbesseller from one of the world&#8217sleading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied &#8220Amagisterial history.&#8221#8212&#8203Pal Krugman Named a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of&nbspinvntion&nbspoffet 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 have&nbspuse&nbspsuc powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When&nbsp187&#8211200&nbspendd, the world instead saw global warming economic