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A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates.
- Garrison Lovely
Apr 12, 2024 · The idea of progress is inherently an idea that progress, overall, is good. If “progress” is destructive, if it does not in fact improve human well-being, then it hardly deserves the name. Contrast this with the concept of growth.
Sep 9, 2014 · Indeed, economic progress is cast as moral progress. The story tends to go something like this: Inventors, economists, and statesmen in Western Europe dreamed up a new industrialized...
- Jeremy Caradonna
Jul 30, 2019 · Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and...
Feb 17, 2011 · Much of the new literature on progress is dedicated to rescuing an idea of progress from the contingent view of human development and carve out a meaningful, albeit limited, role for reason, human agency, and institutional design to enable progress.
Aug 13, 2018 · Progress is, then, a slippery political beacon, amenable to a great many usages and contexts, for better and for worse. It has also endured something of a beating recently, as atavistic retrenchments and visions of social degeneration have become our political currency.
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Feb 24, 2021 · Progress was about closing the gap, catching one place up to the systems and standards set by another. But for the past decade, I’ve come to think about who has the power to name and measure...
