ࡱ> ;?<c jbjbSS (11>]<<<L      ,,  tttttttt  , ttttt tttttt ,,\,,t 2 :` , X   University of California at Berkeley ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Professor J. Bradford De Long Department of Economics, 601 Evans Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 (510) 643-4027 283-2709 642-6615 fax http://econ161.berkeley.edu/ , % , " Professor Gregory Clark Department of Economics University of California at Davis Davis, CA Dear Greg, As it is my 38th birthday, I choose to celebrate it by sending you the list of chapters and the first half of the first draft of my twentieth-century economic history manuscript. I hope you enjoy it. And please give me a call Sincerely yours, Brad De Long Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century J. Bradford De Long University of California at Berkeley and NBER Copyright 1991-1998 J. Bradford DeLong. I. Introduction Part A: Themes II. Wealth III. Consequences and Causes of Economic Growth Wealth and Utopia Power and Genocide VI. Divergence VII. Economic Policy and Material Prosperity Part B: The Path from the Pre-Industrial World, -1914 VIII. The First Global Economy: Production and Trade IX. The First World Economy: The Gold Standard X. Political and Economic Empires Part C: False Paths, 1914-1945 XI. World War I XII. Restoring[?] the Pre-World War I Economy XIII. Communism and Nazism XIV. The Roaring Twenties XV. The Great Crash and the Great Slump XVI. Hitler and Stalin XVII. Climbing Out of the Depression XVIII. Falling into World War II Part D: The Path to Utopia, 1945-1973 XIX. Present at the Creation XX. The Great Keynesian Boom XXI. Falseand TrueStarts to Development in the Third World XXII. The High Tide of Social Democracy Part E: The Path to Today, 1973-2000 XXIII. Inflation and Oil Shocks: The End of the Keynesian Age XXIV. Rolling Back the Social Insurance State? XXV. East Asias Rise XXVI. The Soviet Unions Fall XXVII. The Break-Up of the Third World Part E: The Path to Tomorrow XXVIII. Ecology and Populations XIX. Technology and Productivity XXX. Looking Forward  My list of intellectual debts on this project is extremely long, getting longer, and too long to list in total. But the ten most weighty intellectual debts to Lawrence Summers, Barry Eichengreen, Jeffrey Williamson, Andrei Shleifer, David Landes, Christina Romer, Claudia Goldin, Robert Waldmann, Peter Temin, David Romer, Jeffrey Weintraub, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Joel Mokyr, David Cutler, Larry Katz, Jan de Vries, Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Richard Sutch (yes, I know thats twenty) cannot be evaded. I am also indebted to the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Business and Economic Research for financial assistance at various points during this project. This is still a work in progress. Comments welcome. Citations (that identify this as a work-in-progress) very welcome as well.  J. Bradford De Long is professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In the past he has worked for the United States government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He has also been a John M. Olin fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow. %&'ABCDMN    E^aoq,0ef  2 3 : > ? Fg¸CJCJ$5CJ$5CJ6 j0JUH* CJOJQJCJ 5OJQJ5CJ jU CJpOJQJ jUCJ CJOJQJ=%&Cb'?aklmxy-$   L H H(%&Cb'?aklmxy-.^_`rstBCE_`aq./0fm    Mbrst  5-.^_`rstBCE_`aq  & F<<$$<$$ ./0f " P k   & F<<  & F< & F< " P k 3 Q n 9 i  Ŀ~ytoje`[6Tj(e&Nh7! 3 Q n 9 i   % : ; < = $<<  & F<<  % : ; < = > <=WX  = > <=WX $hP/ =!"#8$8%| HH@R),, P `,-^&'dk6VYbBAϾ4~~̰b7KM<:H[ <̜SnmM@J-!&UT!*~B( T^,ģI{-4vm $++O&]N:ԣ/5v,N;"eeƌhǜi&EZճn;'4DH:t ^8BΓnۀ_۱FQ:в5uU/6|ui^_<9?G% ;`\סH&JtN; N,"?guDCŶ: )})VDdOH  c $AB@NP?gFD" TNP?gFA\9p>xAKAIL=@X)K*Ce] J`j!P=CB'~~^OۙD=tgaۙdBma|7 VAk@jtqEye=0=n2ſo=SX0"c<y7AvQKd0NuR s?AɵƻaL` ),Pxs^[6~7گ*2 dխP##Q7 )Ԅi|_#k|ٕrekm֯"y9霗(i<38LVUx˫'{LF|lngX\ \"Š΋WW5]79Ov9w^1 Ҹ>C"K|V:&t}6z9oBN .Er[by"p\]GYViߏZfD+A%DdK H  c $AB[$ Kcq^QZ7 " T/$ Kcq^QZ9xNQ,˿ !r 44ZPXP-; ٽ,lbLn=3s52e 44*h Yw4 5q6ic'D; zf[q=!m;?u\4E)>$G1:+(~t;%Y*J\0.h˺4FS~xC v9Sm82[h~_M ~?5%V;P!) 3That economic policythe management of economies byqIqHqJ*Bgovernmentsin the twentieth century was at best inept. Little wasqIqHqJ*@known about how to manage a market economy. Lessons learned fromqIqHqJ*Cexperience were often forgotten quickly. There w ՜.+,D՜.+,8 hp  ' Delong groupC3 @:  Title 6> _PID_GUID'AN{FEB38908-C3B9-11D1-8B16-EBF1993BB40A}\0\`\P\ \ \\\\\0  \ \`7@P8N\PN\X\\`\HHPN\0\`\\ \  \X\p\\\0`\ \`PJL@E([\[l\\\`\HHPMp\00\`\\0 \0 $y05\54\\00$y\PP\\PPJd\ \5&,\5'\P54X\55\57h\59\5S\5Z\5]\5^\5_\5`\5c\5d|\5e,\5i\5j\5q\\5r0\5r\5sx\5td\5ud\5u\5v\5wt\5x\5y\5z\5{\5{\5}\5~D\5~\5~\5\5\5\5\5T\5\5\5`\5˘\5H\5D\5Ϙ\5t\50\5ռ\5\5D\5L\5l\5ݼ\5\6\6X\6\6\6|\6\6D\6\6,\6\6\6\6\6 p\6 \6 X\6 \6 (\6 \6 \6 l\6 \6 D\6 \6 \6\6\6@\6\6\6|\6\6`\6\6L\6\6\6\6\6d\6\6(\6\HX \ \ \? \? \? \ \ \ \ \  \H  \P  \( @ \P  \ \ ? \= \ \ \ \ \ \@ \x [4@4NormalCJOJQJkH'mH F`F Heading 1,H1$<@& 5CJ0KH$B`B Heading 2,H2$<@&5CJ$B`B Heading 3,H3$<@&5CJ<A@<Default Paragraph FontLOLReturn Address  H5CJOJQJkH'8o8 Blockquotehh<<0`List Bullet,ULp & F>Th8o8 RestartListdOJQJ2@22 Footnote TextCJ8&@A8Footnote ReferenceH*  ( &(!!  f ^  - =    >  Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Temin Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Temin Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Andrei Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Andrei Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Clark Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Clark Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Goldin  hhOJQJo(o(. @ll+^lk m @ GTimes New Roman5Symbol3 Arial?Avant Garde5MUCSeal90RR New York3Times;Helvetica7MTms Rmn"&f&f&fk!+0 Berkeley stationery fileletter stationery"Berkeley address stationery letter Brad DeLong Brad DeLong.qIqHqJ+-;[Picture: leftthe harvest in Oh+'0( <H d p | 'Berkeley stationery file.0letter stationeryy  Brad DeLong#Berkeley address stationery lettersNormaly Brad DeLong2adMicrosoft Word 8.0a@F#@ @¢@¢k#0PT/ =!"#$%| ,, P ` #),, P `,-^&' T+CO CY|0l dUxV_h[U$K6];IK{:kI;u`thT7 |A( =:7E֧vHE8lms~{&5=}sνܺ;]teF!]І;#Z"٤4SN\5+*P=3|.4V)pM Cɤs*d(seZ-jJ(jr6-U%wukxuGWrsEoF N#%J*^5K*CyjVoAuIM1gіŽ, 11 92 \#0PT/ =!"#$%| ,, P ` #),, P `,-^&' T+CO CY|0l dUxV_h[U$K6];IK{:kI;u`thT7 |A( =:7E֧vHE8lms~{&5=}sνܺ;]teF!]І;#Z"٤4SN\5+*P=3|.4V)pM Cɤs*d(seZ-jJ(jr6-U%wukxuGWrsEoF N#%J*^5K*CyjVoAuIM1gіŽ,d7,bBs zG?ŜnSVi6h Mh)hA;q$uJr\8'΍s\9gΝu(N_:nG}_(OtAbO $q+̹n\qCx/^.c&"Mh4 <#ȁs87Αs9矨C@<Eut#Q/wFX(Tlz> P k|[ ܡQ8kDvv`K!uPl}茸*J[uvpi{wp~gc0Z0VG}} c) T # ހ[ۖ4? ecQxVMhcU>%ƦMO}iu3mIڱiYX3LD^1!&E )BWʴ.Dq7EEp݂⌌ u*:i;M9&M.|{UBSF+19hpF|D_RYW(^D~G79^Fz[`JQ)ΔT)*q4jNxCKjժug̪ED5"Z:5yq%7 SzG("48DjV8kꨲT?F&]p}`Lc3ɠ6 7@=k1۔hZIpBcZ쁽'+{w  MMaYoz-`c>ޏ[eO.?8;}PbMf={왽3oq][Y={ԋ $16$jHRuяH5š=7^3{_lU}u:/POg"hA ՜.+,D՜.+,P  hp  ' Delong groupta : Berkeley stationery file Title 6> _PID_GUID'AN{301B2C80-0B42-11D2-8B16-EB2178866D59}kwQ x:Ȅ0vt䥥Al aU'pGoGba>V¿#: ]ԱR٨M27j3|GX7 L6{=l<IIco7T ^,bڞ6$ѩ@ۅ~3_(Zhg$1Z/Lc\:wi1+73e3E×˅tj&2[hYhORCFkߙo_L4 Sociobiology has an extremely bad track record and even the latest crop seem to be made up of little more than just-so stories without strong supporting evidence or proposed mechanisms. Dawley. Gerstle. Hobsbawm. 92 peared. The ability to boss one terms n the rich of a century ago. Small s94 Grand Expectations. Alan Brinkley. Others.103 106 | ,, P ` #),, P `,-^&'D<\&umMhF_C]Ϝ񙷓wW|F}mD86s6NjzlK?Ĝ^`wXQ0x84.N*~-hl-AO3‚b~UbA{o3+Vq}q7;Lj/ :CU}3uթ Rp~]:w㛈Ǎgʕۈ"Xt,mǚ5‰ƹT81Z2r=Pܧz&%f3D&3)c~d\&›\oS9Twmb&dб$V<ΗgT> c) T # ހ[ۖ4? ecQxVMhcU>%ƦMO}iu3mIڱiYX3LD^1!&E )BWʴ.Dq7EEp݂⌌ u*:i;M9&M.|{UBSF+19hpF|D_RYW(^D~G79^Fz[`JQ)ΔT)*q4jNxCKjժug̪ED5"Z:5yq%7 SzG("48DjV8kꨲT?F&]p}`Lc3ɠ6 7@=k1۔hZIpBcZ쁽'+{w  MMaYoz-`c>ޏ[eO.?8;}PbMf={왽3oq][Y={ԋ $16$jHRuяH5š=7^3{_lU}u:/POg"hA  !"#$%'()*+,-/0123458Root Entry F$f:Data 1TableAX/WordDocument(SummaryInformation(&DocumentSummaryInformation8.CompObjRoot EntryXObjectPoolc@Data$f$f FMicrosoft Word DocumentNB6WWord.Document.8^ug! $ J *J'(ETUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghij^^u J *J'Root Entry F *fAData 1TableAX/WordDocumentO* !"#$%>=B@DEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abc0TableC3SummaryInformation( DocumentSummaryInformation8CompObjRoot EntryXObjectPoolc@Data$f$f _GUID'AN{301B2C80-0B42-11D2-8B16-EB2178866D59} "! "! Oh+'0( <H d p | 'Berkeley stationery file.0letter stationeryy  Brad DeLong#Berkeley address stationery lettersNormaly Brad DeLong3ad FMicrosoft Word DocumentNB6WWord.Document.8^ug ՜.+,D՜.+,P  hp  ' Delong groupta : Berkeley stationery file Title 6> _PIDMicrosoft Word 8.0a@F#@ @¢@¢k 99999HHQCbJ$9 99 99 99 ^ 999 9^^9 999 9999 ^^ 9 9 99HHQPdW$9 ^ 999 9^^9 999 99 [4@4NormalCJOJQJkH'mH F`F Heading 1,H1$<@& 5CJ0KH$B`B Heading 2,H2$<@&5CJ$B`B Heading 3,H3$<@&5CJ<A@<Default Paragraph FontLOLReturn Address  H5CJOJQJkH'8o8 Blockquotehh<<0`List Bullet,ULp & F>Th8o8 RestartListdOJQJ2@22 Footnote TextCJ8&@A8Footnote ReferenceH*  ( &(!!  d ^ %&Cb(@Sghiwx+,\]^pqr#89:;< `'`'`' `'!`'!`'!`'!`'!`'!`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'$`'$`'$`'PS`'PS`'PS`'PS`'!(@Sgiwx+; ") - = ")   Unknown Brad DeLongJ. Bradford DeLong<  Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Temin Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Andrei Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Andrei Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongRPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Williamson Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Clark Brad DeLongMPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Clark Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Goldin Brad DeLongNPwrbk 1400 HD:From old powerbook:Website:TCEH:1998_Draft:Correspondence:Goldin  hhOJQJo(o(. @+^ m'@fnu;< @(L @( @ ) @) @#@|@#@#@ GTimes New Roman5Symbol3 Arial?Avant Garde5MUCSeal90RR New York3Times;Helvetica7MTms Rmn"&f&f&fk!+0 Berkeley stationery fileletter stationery"Berkeley address stationery letter Brad DeLong Brad DeLonga certainly did not benefit from the waves of technological innovation and improvement that were beginning to sweep over Europe. Others argue that the quadruple congruence of printing, religious doctrines generating higher literacy, technological innovation driven by constant wars between European nation-states, and expanded trade greatly multiplied Europes command over its environment and banished the Malthusian forces that had previously swung into actic jbjbSS *11<]<<L  ,EBBBBBBBBrtttttt,SGBBBBB^BBT^^^BBBr,,\,,Br^4^:<,r^h University of California at Berkeley ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Professor J. Bradford De Long Department of Economics, 601 Evans Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 (510) 643-4027 283-2709 642-6615 fax http://econ161.berkeley.edu/ , % , " Professor Gregory Clark Department of Economics University of California at Davis Davis, CA Dear Greg, As it is my 38th birthday, I choose to celebrate it by sending you the list of chapters and the first half of the first draft of my twentieth-century economic history manuscript. I hope you enjoy it. And please give me a call Sincerely yours, Brad De Long Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century J. Bradford De Long University of California at Berkeley and NBER Copyright 1991-1998 J. Bradford DeLong. I. Introduction Part A: Themes II. Wealth III. Consequences and Causes of Economic Growth Wealth and Utopia Power and Genocide VI. Divergence VII. Economic Policy and Material Prosperity Part B: The Path from the Pre-Industrial World, -1914 VIII. The First Global Economy: Production and Trade IX. The First World Economy: The Gold Standard X. Political and Economic Empires Part C: False Paths, 1914-1945 XI. World War I XII. Restoring[?] the Pre-World War I Economy XIII. Communism and Nazism XIV. The Roaring Twenties XV. The Great Crash and the Great Slump XVI. Hitler and Stalin XVII. Climbing Out of the Depression XVIII. Falling into World War II Part D: The Path to Utopia, 1945-1973 XIX. Present at the Creation XX. The Great Keynesian Boom XXI. Falseand TrueStarts to Development in the Third World XXII. The High Tide of Social Democracy Part E: The Path to Today, 1973-2000 XXIII. Inflation and Oil Shocks: The End of the Keynesian Age XXIV. Rolling Back the Social Insurance State? XXV. East Asias Rise XXVI. The Soviet Unions Fall XXVII. The Break-Up of the Third World Part E: The Path to Tomorrow XXVIII. Ecology and Populations XIX. Technology and Productivity XXX. Looking Forward  My list of intellectual debts on this project is extremely long, getting longer, and too long to list in total. But the ten most weighty intellectual debts to Lawrence Summers, Barry Eichengreen, Jeffrey Williamson, Andrei Shleifer, David Landes, Christina Romer, Claudia Goldin, Robert Waldmann, Peter Temin, David Romer, Jeffrey Weintraub, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Joel Mokyr, David Cutler, Larry Katz, Jan de Vries, Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Richard Sutch (yes, I know thats twenty) cannot be evaded. I am also indebted to the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Business and Economic Research for financial assistance at various points during this project. This is still a work in progress. Comments welcome. Citations (that identify this as a work-in-progress) very welcome as well.  J. Bradford De Long is professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In the past he has worked for the United States government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He has also been a John M. Olin fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow. %&'ABCDMN    E^aoq,0ef  2 3 : > ? Fg")¸CJCJ$5CJ$5CJ6 j0JUH* CJOJQJCJ 5OJQJ5CJ jU CJpOJQJ jUCJ CJOJQJ>%&Cb'?aklmxy-$   L H H(%&Cb'?aklmxy-.^_`rstBCE_`aq./0fm    Mbrst  5-.^_`rstBCE_`aq  & F<<$$<$$ ./0f " P k   & F<<  & F< & F< " P k 3 Q n 9 i  Ŀ~ytoje`[6Tj(e&Nh7! 3 Q n 9 i   % : ; < = $<<  & F<<  % : ; < = > <=WX  = > <=WX(") $hP/ =!"#8$8%| HH@R),, P `,-^&'dClaudia GoldinHarvard University Cambridge, MA 02138Claudiapart