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- Ten Global Trends : Every Smart Person Should Know and Many Others You Will Find Interesting
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- 2020
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You're wrong: The world is, for the most part, not getting worse. 58 percent of folks in 17 countries surveyed in 2016 thought the world is getting worse rather than better or staying the same. Americans were even more glum: 65 percent thought the world is getting worse and only 6 percent thought it was getting better. The uncontroversial data on major global trends in this book will persuade you that this dark view of the prospects for humanity and the natural world is, in large part, badly mistaken. World population will peak at 8 to 9 billion before the end of this century as the global fertility rate continues its fall from 6 children per woman in 1960 to 2.4 now. The global absolute poverty rate has fallen from 42 percent in 1981 to 8.6 percent today. Satellite data show that forest area has been expanding since 1982. Natural resources are becoming ever cheaper and more abundant. Since 1900 average life expectancy has more than doubled reaching more than 72 years. Of course, big problems like climate change, marine plastic pollution, and declining wildlife populations are still with us, but many of these concerns are already in the process of being ameliorated as a result of the favorable economic, social, and technological trends documented here. You can't fix what is wrong in the world, if you don't know what's actually happening. Ten Global Trends will provide smart busy people with speedy, easily understandable, and entertaining access to surprising facts that they need to know about how the world is really faring.
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Cato Institute
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1948647737
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9781948647731
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Book Title
Ten Global Trends : Every Smart Person Should Know and Many Others You Will Find Interesting
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Globalization, General, Economics / General, Statistics
Publication Year
2020
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Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
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7.5 in
Item Height
0.8 in
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10.4 in
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Cb161.B355 2020
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This is an astonishing collection of positive trends. I want every young person to see it and begin to escape the indoctrination in pessimism they have been subjected to by the media and the education system. Making the world a much better place is clearly possible., "Read this book and find out why, if you are not an optimist, you should be." --Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prizewinning economist and George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, Chapman University "If you learn about the world through daily news and social media, you have probably missed the greatest stories of our time. But don't worry, you'll quickly catch up with this tour de force. It will make you smarter--and happier. I am a cardcarrying optimist, but Ronald Bailey and Marian Tupy manage to make even me more hopeful about humanity." --Johan Norberg, author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, named by The Economist as one of the best books of 2016 "This is an astonishing collection of positive trends. I want every young person to see it and begin to escape the indoctrination in pessimism they have been subjected to by the media and the education system. Making the world a much better place is clearly possible." --Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves and How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom "In these dark times, it is good to remember just how far mankind has come, and how many seemingly impossible problems have been overcome. Keep this book at hand, open it at random, and it will fill you with hope for the future." --Angus S. Deaton, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University "There are two ways to understand the world: a constant drip of anecdotes about the worst things that have happened anywhere on the planet in the previous hour, or a bird'seye view of the grand developments that are transforming the human condition. The first is called 'the news,' and for your wisdom and mental health I recommend balancing it with the second. Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know is a pleasure: gorgeous, selfcontained vignettes on human progress, which you can sample at your leisure or devour in a sitting." --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Table of Content
Table of Contents: Introduction: Why This Book? The Ten Trends Trend 1: The Great Enrichment Trend 2: The End of Poverty Trend 3: Are We Running Out of Resources? Trend 4: Peak Population Trend 5: The End of Famine Trend 6: More Land for Nature Trend 7: Planet City Trend 8: Democracy on the March Trend 9: The Long Peace Trend 10: A Safer World People Trends (Trends 11-23) Health Trends (Trends 24-33) Violence Trends (Trends 34-40) Work Trends (Trends 31-46) Natural Resource Trends (Trends 47-53) Farm Trends (Trends 54-58) Tech Trends (Trends 59-68) U.S. Trends (Trends 69-76)
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2020
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2020-939606
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