Registration for Slouching Towards Utopia: Brad DeLong in conversation with Robert Brenner

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Join us on September 1, 2022 from 4 - 5:30pm PDT for discussion focused on the book Slouching Towards Utopia, by Brad DeLong, Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Economics. Professor DeLong will be joined in conversation by Robert Brenner, Professor Emeritus in the UCLA History Department and moderated by Steven Vogel, Co-chair of the Network for a New Political Economy and the II Han New Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at UC Berkeley. This event is jointly sponsored by the Network for a New Political Economy and Social Science Matrix.

About Slouching Towards Utopia
Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming, economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality. This has produced a broad rejection of the status quo.

Economist Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

This hybrid event will be held in person at Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, on the UC Berkeley campus. We will also broadcast the event via Zoom and will send a link to registrants prior to the event. Please indicate on the form below whether you will attend in person or online.

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