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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Technological advances helped humanity finally evade the Malthusian demon completely.
Chapter 3: Globalization sped up growth, yet distributed gains unevenly overall.
Chapter 4: In World War I, humanity’s utopian vision started to blur badly.
Chapter 5: The Great Depression showed that only active government can mitigate economic crises effectively overall.
Chapter 6: Fascism and socialism promised utopia, yet ultimately slaughtered millions of innocent people.
Chapter 7: Following World War II, social democracy and capitalism triumphed in Cold War.
Chapter 8: Economic gains didn’t lift everyone equally.
Chapter 9: The neoliberal shift of the 1970s deepened income inequality significantly.
Chapter 10: The 2008 financial crisis marked the end of the long century abruptly.
Description
Slouching Towards Utopia (2022) examines the “long century” between 1870 and 2010, during which technological progress, globalization, and the advent of social democracy opened a new horizon of human progress. Barring the horror years of World Wars I and II, humanity seemed to be on a slow, uneven crawl toward utopia. But in 2010, the tables turned. Economic progress in the Global North ground to a halt.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- John Maynard Keynes fans
- Anyone wondering how the world became so unequal