Progress, Johan  Norberg
Progress, Johan  Norberg
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Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Author: Johan Norberg

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2017


Synopsis

From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead.It’s on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.

About Johan Norberg

Johan Norberg is a lecturer, documentary filmmaker, and internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen books. He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. A frequent commentator in Swedish and international media, he has a weekly column in Sweden’s biggest daily, Metro.

About Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins is a professional narrator and voice actor. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, as well as numerous Society of Voice Arts nominations. AudioFile magazine named him a Best Voice consecutively in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents, he has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

According to Johan Norberg those people who were wearing shades because the future was so bright were right. His introduction is called “The Good Old Days Are Now” and his book is an antidote to the daily news because the news is one of the very few things Johan thinks isn’t getting better. That’s b......more

Goodreads review by Morten

This book is difficult to rate. In my view, it warrants two very different reviews. Review 1: Assuming that Norberg’s intentions are morally innocent, “Progress” must be described as a brilliant, free-flowing, well-supported account of how humankind has managed to improve the world and the way we live......more

Johan Norberg, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (London, OneWorld, 2016). “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days,” wrote Franklin Pierce Adams, “than a bad memory.” The good old days, in other words, weren’t so good. Indeed, if Johan Norberg is to be believed, the good......more


Quotes

“An exhilarating book. With the combination of arresting stories and striking data, Progress will change your understanding about where we’ve come from and where we may be heading.” Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author

“A tornado of evidence…a blast of good sense.” Economist (London)

“Persuasive.” Wall Street Journal

“His unfailing optimism and well-argued points generate powerful good-news vibes.” Esquire (UK)

“A refreshingly rosy assessment of how far many of us have come from the days when life was uniformly nasty, brutish, and short.” Kirkus Reviews


Awards

  • Economist Best Book
  • The Observer (UK) Books of the Year