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<p><span class="pp-multiple-authors-layout-inline author_index_1"> <a
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<h2 itemprop="name" class="mkdf-single-product-title">The Glass
Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First
Century</h2>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>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</strong><strong>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.</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>The Glass Half-Empty</em> 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.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">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.</p>
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