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The Journey of Humanity
- Author
- Oded Galor
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 7 April 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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*** Includes a recording of the Intelligence Squared event, featuring Oded Galor in conversation with Kamal Ahmed ***
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' LEWIS DARTNELL
'Completely brilliant and utterly original' JON SNOW
'Astounding in scope and insight' NOURIEL ROUBINI
The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetime's scientific investigation, Oded Galor's ground-breaking new vision identifies these keys to human progress, overturning a host of long-held assumptions and revealing the deeper causes that have shaped the journey of humanity:
Education rather than industrialisation
Family size and gender equality as much as inventions and technology
Geography and diversity rather than wars, disease and famine
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'Unparalleled in its scope and ambition . . . All readers will learn something' Washington Post
'A magisterial, suspense-filled thriller full of surprises and profound insights' Glenn C. Loury
'An inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork' New Statesman
'If you need an evidence-based antidote to doomscrolling, here it is' Guardian
© Oded Galor 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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A wildly ambitious attempt to do for economics what Newton, Darwin or Einstein did for their fields: develop a theory that explains almost everything ... an inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork, the boldest possible attempt to write the economic history of humanity
New Statesman
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There will be inevitable comparisons with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens ... If you need an evidence-based antidote to doomscrolling, here it is
Guardian
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Journey of Humanity... is only 300 pages long, which considering it covers thousands of years of global history... is surprisingly concise. Its breadth and ambition are reminiscent of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel...and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens
Financial Times
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A large-scale survey of human history... The heart of the matter is why some countries grow and some don't... Perhaps growth-mad Liz Truss should have read it. You certainly should.
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Unparalleled in its scope and ambition ... All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating
Washington Post
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Deeply rewarding and fascinating
Spectator
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A completely brilliant and utterly original account of humanity's transit from crude beginnings to a deeply divided planet. A vastly readable insight into why our world is as it is. A book for our epoch
Jon Snow, former presenter of Channel 4 News
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A masterful sweep through the human odyssey, from the origin of our species to the making of the modern world, that answers the ultimate mystery: what accounts for the staggering inequality in the wealth of nations today? Exquisite, eloquent and effortlessly erudite - if you liked Sapiens, you'll love this
Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins
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Astounding in scope and insight, The Journey of Humanity provides a captivating and revelatory account of the deepest currents that have shaped human history, and the keys to the betterment of our species
Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics
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I am in awe of Oded Galor's attempts to explain inequality today as a consequence of such profound forces. A remarkable contribution to our understanding of this mammoth dilemma
Jim O'Neill, author of The Growth Map
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Details
- Author
- Oded Galor
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duration
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 April 2022
- ISBN
- 9781473596450
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Popular economics, Economic geography, Social and cultural history, Human geography, Archaeology, Population and demography, Sociolinguistics, Social discrimination and social justice, Social theory, Impact of science and technology on society
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.*** Includes a recording of the Intelligence Squared event, featuring Oded Galor in conversation with Kamal Ahmed *** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' LEWIS DARTNELL'Completely brilliant and utterly original' JON SNOW'Astounding in scope and insight' NOURIEL ROUBINIThe stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetime's scientific investigation, Oded Galor's ground-breaking new vision identifies these keys to human progress, overturning a host of long-held assumptions and revealing the deeper causes that have shaped the journey of humanity:Education rather than industrialisationFamily size and gender equality as much as inventions and technologyGeography and diversity rather than wars, disease and famine*'Unparalleled in its scope and ambition . . . All readers will learn something' Washington Post'A magisterial, suspense-filled thriller full of surprises and profound insights' Glenn C. Loury'An inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork' New Statesman'If you need an evidence-based antidote to doomscrolling, here it is' Guardian© Oded Galor 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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