‘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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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?
- Pre-Debate Interviews
- Post-Debate Commentary
- Acknowledgements
- About the Debaters
- About the Editor
- About the Munk Debates
- About the Interviews
- About the Post-Debate Commentary
- Copyright
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Yes, you can access Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker,Matt Ridley,Alain de Botton,Malcolm Gladwell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.