Progress

Optimistic, Progress challenges the “doomsayers” of politics and the media, and calls for a renewal of hope.

Examining official data from the United States, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Johan Norberg analyzes how far we've come on humanity's most important issues. He argues that, contrary to popular belief, our progress over the past few decades has been unparalleled: despite, for example, the catastrophic news we hear daily, which paints a picture of our world on the brink of collapse, we've made more progress in the last hundred years than in the first 100,000, and global poverty has declined more in the last fifty years than in the previous five hundred.