{"product_id":"slouching-towards-utopia","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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A magisterial history.\"--​Paul Krugman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":50804067664104,"sku":"9780465019595","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_aa598f31-1dd7-41eb-9f09-64360a345dda.jpg?v=1790296195","url":"https:\/\/kuumba-47muwsn1.myshopify.com\/products\/slouching-towards-utopia","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}