by Malcolm Gladwell (Author), Matt Ridley (Author), Alain De Botton (Author), Malcolm Gladwell (Author), Matt Ridley (Author), Steven Pinker (Author), Steven Pinker (Author), Alain de Botton (Author), Malcolm Gladwell (Author), Matt Ridley (Author)
`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...
Format: mass_market
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published:
ISBN 10: 1786070766
ISBN 13: 9781786070760