The Mainspring of Human Progress
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1610164024
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Author: Henry Grady Weaver
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1610164024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Ryding
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Published: 1801
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry George
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry George
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-03
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 338545073X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author: Ronald Wright
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0887847064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Author: William RYDING (Veterinary Surgeon.)
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Published: 1801
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodrigo Aguilera
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1912248816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite 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. But this “progress narrative” is little more than a very conservative defence of the capitalist status quo. At a time when liberal democracy appears incapable of stemming the tide of the far-right populism, and when laissez-faire capitalism is ill-equipped to deal with socio-economic problems like climate change, inequality, and the future of wok, the real advocates of progress are those willing to challenge these established paradigms. The Glass Half-Empty argues that, without criticising the systems of capitalism, the changes needed to make a better world will always fall short of our expectations. The "progress narrative" needs to be challenged before we stumble into a potentially catastrophic future, despite having the means to build a truly better world.
Author: Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0578016664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future emancipated from its chains and led by the progress of reason and the establishment of liberty. Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an elate and giddy optimist, Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.
Author: John Bagnell Bury
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. MATHEWS (of Bath, Meat Salesman.)
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Published: 1797
Total Pages: 254
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