Progress : Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

• Autore: Norberg Johan
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Oneworld Publications, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.44
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - History
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: THE GOOD OLD DAYS ARE NOW -- 1 FOOD -- 2 SANITATION -- 3 LIFE EXPECTANCY -- 4 POVERTY -- 5 VIOLENCE -- 6 THE ENVIRONMENT -- 7 LITERACY -- 8 FREEDOM -- 9 EQUALITY -- 10 THE NEXT GENERATION -- Epilogue: SO WHY ARE YOU STILL NOT CONVINCED? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: It's on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is – financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it's true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting and counter-intuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.
• Altri titoli varianti: Progress
• Titolo autorizzato: Progress
• ISBN: 1-78074-951-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136651603321
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