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It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 years
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0973
EAN: 9781882577965
ISBN: 1882577965
Label: Cato Institute
Manufacturer: Cato Institute
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 294
Publication Date: January 25, 2001
Publisher: Cato Institute
Studio: Cato Institute
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Editorial Review:
There has been more material progress in the United States in the 20th Century than in the entire world in all previous centuries combined.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Egregious Examples of 'Progress' And 'Improvement'
Potential readers of this book have a right to know that this book was not authored by Julian Lincoln Simon, as the title indicates. Rather, the book was authorized, or commissioned, by the late Professor Simon shortly before his lamentable death. Although Professor Simon did agree to collaborate with Mr. Moore on a book, and fully intended to write a book along these lines, and prepared some material for a possible use in a manuscript (and we have no way of knowing if any of this material was ... Read More
Rating: - Smaller, richer families
A reader from Great Falls is off base on "family income" as a measure of prosperity. "Household income" is another dubious measure. Over the last several decades, the average size of a family, and of a household, has steadily decreased. Several factors contribute to this decline, more frequent divorce, more independent elderly and children, etc. This decline makes average "family income" and "household income" very misleading measures of changing wealth, ... Read More
Rating:  - This book is the antidote to so much pessimism
Every four years we're told how civilization has fallen into ill-rebuke. The chattering classes continue to repeat the Marxist slogan that the poor have fallen behind while the idle rich have gotten richer by stealing from the poor. But this rare optimistic book knocks those arguments cold. As a civilization, Americans are healthier, smarter, wealthier, happier, than at any time in America or the world at any point in civilization. There is not such a thing as the so-called "good old days." ... Read More
Rating:  - A not entirely forthright look at the subject
Moore is president of the conservative Club for Growth and has been a vociferous spokesperson for slashing taxes and reducing the size of government. He is well known for twisting the facts and employing faulty statistics to prove his point. An example of this is relying upon per capita income rather than the more widely accepted (and more revealing) family income.
Clearly, many of the trends described in the book are what most people, including myself, would agree to be improvements over the past 100 ... Read More
Rating: - Shallow and boring
I am a great Julian Simon / Björn Lomborg fan, but this book has a limited number of mostly useless diagrams, especially from non-US perspective. But any other Simon book.
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