Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

by Malcolm Gladwell (Author), Matt Ridley (Author), Alain De Botton (Author), Malcolm Gladwell (Author), Matt Ridley (Author), Steven Pinker (Author)

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  Mass Market Paperback
  2016

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  `It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.'
  -Steven Pinker

  `The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.'
  -Malcolm Gladwell

  In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world's most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era...

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  Mass Market Paperback
  2016

  $10.55

  `It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.'
  -Steven Pinker

  `The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.'
  -Malcolm Gladwell

  In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world's most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era...