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J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Basic Books, 2022, 624 pp., ISBN: 978-0465019595

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Offer, A. J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Soc 60, 276–278 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00825-0

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