{"product_id":"slouching-towards-utopia-9780465019595","title":"Slouching Towards Utopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A magisterial history.”—​Paul Krugman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e ;\u003cbr\u003e Economist Brad DeLong’s \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. This is a book of remarkable breadth and ambition, revealing the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51391400837425,"sku":"9780465019595","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_4994eb24-42e0-442b-af0c-e56038e58dd4.jpg?v=1773115581","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/slouching-towards-utopia-9780465019595","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}