Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by J.BradfordDeLong

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624 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2023

Reviews

[David Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and yet full of great concepts that link and explain the long century. Significant book for those who wish to understand the political and economic history of the last 150 years.

[Mark Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slouching towards Utopia. An Economic History of the 20th Century by J. Bradford DeLong is an entertaining, thought provoking and engaging book which perfectly balances personal opinion, factual details, causes and affects as it charts the "Long twentieth century" from 1870 to 2020. Its intelligent without ever being boring and only rarely did I feel my lack of economic knowledge hinder my understanding but never my enjoyment.

Take away quotation

"The socialist economist Joan Robinson said. "The only thing worse than being exploited by the capitalist is not being exploited by the capitalist."