Slouching Toward Utopia

The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by

Brad DeLong

• My first attempt at writing an economic history of the twentieth century...
• William Butler Yeat's poem The Second Coming

Part I: Overview
1. Introduction: Slouching Toward Utopia
2. Wealth and Luxury: Material Prosperity Beyond the Dreams of Previous Avarice
3. Power and Violence: 150 Million Killed by Their Own Governments
4. Us and Them: The Growing Economic Gulf Separating Nations
5. Policy and Prosperity: The Alchemy of Managing Industrial Economies

Part II: The End of the 19th Century
6. Technology and Invention, 1900-1920
7. Finance, Commerce, and Migration, 1900-1925

Part III: The Near-End of Liberal Democracy
8. World War I
9. Trying to Rebuild: Europe in the 1920s
10. Mass Production and Electronic Communication: America's Roaring Twenties
11. Seeds of a Great Depression?
12. America's Great Depression
13. Europe's Great Depression
14. Nazis and Soviets: the Near-Death of Democracy
15. The End of an International Economic Order
16. World War II

Part IV: Present at the Creation
17. Present at the Creation: The Reconstruction of Europe
18. The "Mixed Economy": The Post-WWII Settlement
19. Thirty Glorious Years: The Great Keynesian Boom in the Industrialized World
20. The Non-Aligned Detour

Part V: Yesterday and Today
21. Inflation, Oil, and International Economic Disorder
22. Rolling Back the Welfare State?: The Legacy of Reagan and Thatcher
23. East Asia's Rise
24. The Soviet Union's Fall

Part VI: Tomorrow
25. Technology
26. Ecology
27. Polity
28. Utopia

[Part I. Overview]