Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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 ReadingNorberg’s newest book is Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016).Listeners may also enjoy Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2011).To find more statistics that show how the world is always getting better, we recommend checking out another one of Cato’s projects, HumanProgress.org. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
