Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg
Food, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, environment, literacy, freedom, equality, childhood: the data on how far we have come. Short, cheering, well sourced.
Read it if…
you want a quick dose of data-based optimism.
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Skip it if…
you have read Factfulness and Enlightenment Now.
Try instead: The Algebra of Happiness →
Three things you will actually use
- Most things are getting better.
- Progress is not automatic.
- Know the numbers.
Do this first
Read the chapter on poverty.
Our verdict
Ten reasons for hope.
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