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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Brad DeLong · 2022

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Martin Wolf loved it
It's a history of the last 150 years. There is lots in it that I absolutely love. It's very American. It's not American-focused, but it's a book an American would write. That's really important because America has made the world we live in. People in Europe and Britain don't want to accept that, but that's the reality. I mean that in every respect: culturally, economically, technologically, and so forth. The Industrial Revolution in Britain was incredibly important but since the late 19th century, everything has been dominated by America.

on fivebooks.com · 16 May 2023

Jason Furman recommends it
Slouching Towards Utopia is a rich, nuanced story of the interplay of politics, economics, and ideas and how they shaped progress.

on fivebooks.com · 10 Dec 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.