About the book
Angus Deaton argues that people today are wealthier and healthier than in the past, yet so many escaping destitution has opened wide gaps between people and between countries. He traces how sustained progress took hold in some parts of the world, and how that progress set the stage for an unequal world.
Steven Pinker included it in a list for The Guardian of books to make readers optimists.
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Steven Pinker (Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author)
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