Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by Brad DeLong

This is a book with an epic sweep. Economist Brad Delong looks at how, during the long twentieth century, from 1870 to 2020, economic growth, trade and human prosperity took off in a way that had no parallel in history. But, as he explains, although this should have been the great breakthrough in revolutionising the drive to satisfy human wants, it didn’t work out that.  The book’s other great theme is an exploration of that failure.