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Outtakes

Outtakes from: Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century, 1870-2016

I no longer feel it worth very scarce lecture time to devote half an hour to teaching the Rule of 72 anymore...

Jan 24

A piece excised from my forthcoming "Slouching Towards Utopia". Excised because, well, the history starts in 1870—not in -8000...

Dec 29, 2021

An outtake from my forthcoming "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century"... The bio-demographic underpinnings of the cultural…

Dec 21, 2021

An outtake left on the cutting room floor from the ms. of "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century: One set of lenses…

Jun 15, 2021

Questions: (a) Is it right? (b) Does it hit the right notes? Were I female, would I see the shift of the typical woman’s experience from one of eating…

May 25, 2021

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