Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World
Sixty-five short lives of the people who made the modern world materially better, Borlaug included.
Alexander C.R. Hammond profiles the inventors, scientists and reformers behind the improvements in living standards that most histories skip: Gutenberg at the start, Norman Borlaug and the green revolution, Richard Cobden and free trade, and many less famous names. Steven Pinker contributes a foreword, and the framing is unapologetically optimistic about progress.
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Tyler Cowen
Alexander C.R. Hammond, Heroes of Progress: 65 people who changed the world, with a forward by Steven Pinker. Starts with Gutenberg, of course Norman Borlaug is included, don’t forget Cobden, Bentham, Frederick Douglass, and many others. Well done.
Source · May 2024
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