DeLong, who teaches at University of California, Berkeley, starts by asking a simple question: “Suppose we could go back in time to 1870 and tell people then how rich, relative to them, humanity would become by 2010. This period started with the “watershed-crossing events of around 1870 - the triple emergence of globalisation, the industrial research lab, and the modern corporation - which ushered in changes that began to pull the world out of the dire poverty that had been humanity’s lot for the previous 10,000 years, since the discovery of agriculture”. It traces the evolution of the global economy over what DeLong refers to as the “long twentieth century” - essentially the period between 18. Staying with economic histories, J Bradford DeLong’s Slouching towards Utopia (Basic Books, Rs 999)is a compelling read. 3 ‘Frenny and Other Women You Have Met’: New book celebrates ‘non-working’ women, their strugglesĬhip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Source: Amazon.in).2 April in Books: Chola adventures, Mughal mapmakers and Dalit liberation.1 Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz win fiction Pulitzer Prizes.
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