Book Review: Slouching towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Brad DeLong’s 600-page tome admirably aims to provide the grand narrative of economic growth in the United States and the rest of the world from 1870 to 2010. However, afflicted with numerous problems, it ultimately proves to be a disappointment.
References
Arnesen, Eric. 1994. “‘Like Banquo’s Ghost, It Will Not Down’: The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880–1920.” American Historical Review 99 (5): 1601–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2168390.
Keynes, John Maynard. 1978. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Vol. 7 of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, edited by Elizabeth Johnson and Donald Moggridge. London: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/UPO9781139524278.
Leonard, Thomas C. 2016. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77cqn.
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Newman, Patrick. 2024. “Book Review: Slouching towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 27 (1). https://doi.org/10.35297/001c.118100.
