Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages - Softcover

Norberg, Johan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 180546387X ISBN 13: 9781805463870

Verlag: Faber and Faber, 2025

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Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of Abbasid Baghdad came algebra and modern medicine, and the Dutch Republic furnished us with Europe's greatest artistic movements. As such, each has unique lessons to teach us about the world we live in today. But, all previous golden ages have proven finite, whether through external pressures or internal

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Johan Norberg is a historian, lecturer and commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC and his books have been translated into forty languages. His books include The Capitalist Manifesto, the international bestseller Progress and Open, which was an Economist book of the year. Norberg regularly writes for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Reason and HuffPost.

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• Verlag: Faber and Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 180546387X
• ISBN 13: 9781805463870
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
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