Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell, et al.

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Sachbuch / Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke

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';It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' Steven Pinker ';The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.' Malcolm Gladwell In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world's most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era

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