[D66] Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

[R.O.]

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Rodrigo Aguilera <https://repeaterbooks.com/author/rodrigo-aguilera/>


    The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the
    Twenty-First Century

£7.99 – £12.99

*Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, 
climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading 
intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Matt 
Ridley, among others) have been arguing in recent years that the world 
is getting better and better. E**xtreme poverty is nearly eradicated, 
violence is at historic lows, and only mass pessimism keeps us from 
realizing how good we have it in the twenty-first century.*

/The Glass Half-Empty/ debunks the most important arguments given by 
these “New Optimists” and exposes their progress narrative as being 
little more than a very conservative defence of the status quo.

At a time when liberal democracy appears incapable of stemming the tide 
of authoritarian populism, and when laissez-faire capitalism is 
ill-equipped to deal with critical socio-economic problems like climate 
change, inequality, and the future of work, the real advocates of 
progress are those willing to challenge established orthodoxies rather 
than hope that the policies that got us this far are the best to lead us 
into an increasingly uncertain future.


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