The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
$32.68
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2004
Summary
A major work of polemical cultural writing in the tradition of The Death of Common Sense, The Tipping Point, Bohos in Paradise, and The Good Life and Its Discontents.
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century—and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812973037 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812973038 |
| Author: | Gregg Easterbrook |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
“The Progress Paradox raises some provocative questions… . This is a book meant to challenge left and right–keep both sides off balance… . A welcome antidote to the demagoguery prevalent in political discussion today.”
–Los Angeles Times
“Well-constructed, civic-minded … full of compelling statistics and anecdotes … a convincing case for good cheer.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Lively … combines a vast amount of scholarly research and reporting to generate a thoughtful, sustained argument.”
–BusinessWeek
“Utterly engaging … There are surprises all through it, and some startling refutations of conventional wisdoms.”
–Baltimore Sun
“With the lively wit and contrarian insight that is a regular feature of his articles in The New Republic … Mr. Easterbrook offers a bracing reminder of what is too often forgotten but difficult to deny: In the West in the past fifty years, life has gotten steadily better.”
–The Wall Street Journal
“Excellent.”
–The Economist
Fascinating… may well be this fall’s version of The Tipping Point.”
–Seattle Post-Intelligencer
About The Author
Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of The New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a visiting fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for ESPN.com. He is the author of six books, including A Moment on the Earth, a New York Times and American Library Association Notable Book. He has also been a contributing editor at Newsweek and an editor of The Washington Monthly. He lives in Maryland.
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