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Brad DeLong on Slouching Toward Utopia

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Brad DeLong on Slouching Toward Utopia

Matthew Yglesias
Oct 24, 2022
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Brad DeLong on Slouching Toward Utopia

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Back on October 13 we hosted Berkeley University economist (and veteran blogger) Brad DeLong for a Slow Boring Book Club event about his magisterial new book Slouching Toward Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century.

The audio of the first half of that event — my conversation with Brad — is available here for your listening pleasure. The audio and transcript for the audience Q&A will be available next week.

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