The Journey of Humanity
A New History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future
A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species’ progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers.
“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating.’—The Washington Post
“Breathtaking. A new Sapiens!” —L'Express
“Completely brilliant and utterly original ... a book for our epoch.”—Jon Snow, former presenter, Channel 4 News (UK)
“A wildly ambitious attempt to do for economics what Newton, Darwin or Einstein did for their fields: develop a theory that explains almost everything.” —The New Statesman
“An inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork.” —The New Statesman
“[A] sweeping overview of cultural, technological and educational forces... Its breadth and ambition are reminiscent of Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Harari’s Sapiens.”—Financial Times
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March 21, 2023Oded Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, prosperity, and inequality over the entire span of human history. He has shared the insights of his lifetime’s work in this field at some of the most prestigious lectures around the globe and has now distilled those discoveries into The Journey of Humanity, which is being published in twenty-eight languages worldwide.
