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Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Copyright 1991-1997.

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J. Bradford De Long is an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, the co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In the past he has worked for the United States Treasury as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.

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Slouching Towards Utopia?: Introduction (chapter 0)

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Part I: Themes

Slouching Towards Utopia?: Wealth (chapter 1). Appendix: Measuring Living Standards

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Meaning of Economic Growth (chapter 2)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Genocide (chapter 3)

Slouching Towards Utopia: First and Third World (chapter 4)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Policy and Prosperity (chapter 5). Appendix: Assessing and Accounting for Changing Business Cycle Volatility

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Part II: The Road from Yesterday, 1870-1914

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Pre-World War I Economy (chapter 6)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Gold Standard (chapter 7). Appendix: Modeling the Gold Standard

Slouching Towards Utopia: Empires and Economic Leadership (chapter 8)

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Part III: The Road to Disaster, 1914-1945

Slouching Towards Utopia: World War I (chapter 9)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Restoring the Pre-WWI Economy (chapter 10). Appendix: Hyperinflation

Slouching Towards Utopia: Communism, Fascism, and Nazism (chapter 11)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Roaring Twenties (chapter 12)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Great Crash and the Great Slump (chapter 13). Appendix: Economic Policy and the Great Depression

Slouching Towards Utopia: Nazis and Soviets (chapter 14)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Climbing Out of the Depression (chapter 15)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Depression at the Periphery (chapter 16)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Falling into World War II (chapter 17)

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Part IV: The Road to Utopia, 1945-1973

Slouching Towards Utopia: Present at the Creation (chapter 18)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Great Keynesian Boom: "Thirty Glorious Years" (chapter 19)

Slouching Towards Utopia: False--and True--Starts to Development in the Third World (chapter 20)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The High Tide of Social Democracy (chapter 21)

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Part V: The Road to Today, 1973-2000

Slouching Towards Utopia: Inflation and Oil Shocks (chapter 22). Appendix: The Phillips Curve

Slouching Towards Utopia: Rolling Back the Welfare State (chapter 23)

Slouching Towards Utopia: East Asia's Rise (chapter 24). Appendix: Sources of East Asian Growth

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Soviet Union's Fall (chapter 25)

Slouching Towards Utopia: The Break-Up of the Third World (chapter 26). Appendix: Sources of Third World Growth and Stagnation

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Part VI: The Road to Tomorrow

Slouching Towards Utopia: Ecology and Population (chapter 27)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Technology and Productivity (chapter 28)

Slouching Towards Utopia: Looking Backward (chapter 29)

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20 Century

Created 1/24/1997
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