Sources Documenting Human Progress

Bibliography

Michael Schermer:

"Human progress in general, and moral advancement in particular, have been documented in detail in a number of recent books, including

1. Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018, Flatiron Books),
2. Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018, Spiegel & Grau),
3. Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now (2018, Penguin) and The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011, Penguin),
4. Gregg Easterbrook’s It’s Better Than it Looks (2018, PublicAffairs),
5. Johan Norberg’s Progress (2017, OneWorld),
6. my own The Moral Arc (2015, Henry Holt),
7. Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist (2010, HarperCollins)."

(https://quillette.com/2018/11/08/another-dream-deferred/)

Data Sources

"Regular updates on humanity’s development are provided with copious data on such sites as HumanProgress by Marian Tupy and Our World in Data by Max Roser, aggregated with statistics from the World Bank, the UN, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Eurostat, and other sources."

(https://quillette.com/2018/11/08/another-dream-deferred/)