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A Problem of Success

from Johan Norberg at The Spectator, Why can’t we see that we’re living in a golden age? Books that say the world is doomed sell rather well, too. I have just attempted the opposite. I’ve written a book called Progress, about

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Overcoming Pessimism

Over the last 200 years the world population has increased 7x while the wealth per capita increased 10x- for a 70x increase in wealth consumed. This  is dwarfed by the better performers like Britain, Japan, Sweden and of course the

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Relative Progress

Robert Graboyes writes Why We Need to Liberate America’s Health Care Excerpts: Step into a time machine and travel back to 1989. Gather a group of people and tell them of the advances that medical science has made in 25 years

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