Progress Studies

URL = https://www.lesswrong.com/w/progress-studies

Description

Arctotherium:

"Progress Studies is a combination of academic discipline and political movement aiming to study “the causes of civilizational progress”, i.e., the “economic, technological, scientific, and cultural advancements that have transformed human life and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries”. Those under its banner (such as Tyler Cowen and Jason Crawford) tend towards technophilia, libertarianism and rationalism, with a view towards continuing the incredible progress seen between roughly 1760 and the present—especially in light of the Great Stagnation, the clear slowdown in progress since 1973 (in the wealthiest and most dynamic parts of the world)."

(https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/progress-studies-and-feminization)