Episode 163: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (with Johan Norberg)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 02/12/2016

Johan Norberg joins Trevor this week to talk about the notion of progress and gives us all a few reasons to look forward to the future.

Why is there a systemic bias towards pessimism when hard data shows the world is getting better and better every day?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Norberg’s newest book is Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016).
https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Reasons-Look-Forward-Future/dp/1780749503

Listeners may also enjoy Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2011).
https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-S/dp/0061452068/

To find more statistics that show how the world is always getting better, we recommend checking out another one of Cato’s projects, http://humanprogress.org.


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