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Ryan Avent: Reviews of “Slouching” at The Economist and The Bellows

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Ryan Avent: Reviews of “Slouching” at The Economist and The Bellows

2022-09-09

Brad DeLong
Oct 13, 2022
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Ryan Avent: Slouching Towards Utopia is a tale of stunning material progress—and of its limits :: Culture | Progress and its discontents :: Bradford DeLong reconsiders the 20th century’s economic history… <https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/09/08/bradford-delong-reconsiders-the-20th-centurys-economic-history>

Ryan Avent: The two twentieth centuries: The case against seeing the period from 1870 to 2010 as an economically coherent whole…

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The two twentieth centuries
Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia (my official review of which can be found here) is an economic history of what he calls the long twentieth century, stretching from 1870 to 2010. When most scholars go about slicing up modern history, they tend to see a clear break in 1914, and perhaps another around 1989-91, and from a political or ideological per…
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