Gregg Easterbrook
Autor(a) de The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
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Gregg Easterbrook's "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" is "the best and most compelling football column anywhere" (Chuck Todd, MSNBC), "excellent" (Wired magazine), "a legend in the world of sports journalism" (Yale Daily News), "popular" (The New Yorker), "the thinking-person's John Madden" mostrar mais (Washingtonian magazine), "excellent" (The Christian Science Monitor), "influential" (The Guardian), "a must-read for American football fans" (Reuters), "always interesting" (Cincinnati Enquirer), "phenomenalfunny, articulate, insightful, and thorough" (University of Virginia Cavalier Daily), "prescient, thoughtful, engaging" (Spirit magazine), and "deserves a game ball" (The New York Times). mostrar menos
Image credit: Gregg Easterbrook. Photo courtesy the U.S. Naval War College.
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- 1953-03-03
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- USA (birth)
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- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Maryland, USA
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- Colorado College
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- The Atlantic
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- Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of The New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a visiting fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for ESPN.com. He has been contributing editor at Newsweek and an editor of The Washington Monthly. He lives in Maryland. [adapted from The Progress Paradox (2003)]
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The good: I think, probably, nearly everybody who is optimistic at heart should read or listen to this if only to have access to solid arguments for rebutting everybody who whines about how awful the world is. Easterbrook presents oodles of evidence that we, as a collective species, are in the best shape of our history, and there is obviously something to that view. And Easterbrook knows quite a bit about quite a bit. Large swatches of society are covered, from food to medicine to the military to even social media, and he speaks about all of these subjects knowledgeably, if a bit reductively.
Alas, he unbalances his arguments more than a bit, nearly all of which were already simplified, further weakening their case. An example is that he makes an extremely compelling (Milton Friedman-ian) claim for Basic Universal Income as a way to fix all manner of social justice ills, with fiscal benefits besides. However, to get there, he dismisses taxes on the rich as a remedy for income inequality on the basis of the relatively small distributive effect of income tax redistribution. What he does not mention are inheritance taxes, which are ground zero for any discussion of reduction of inequality. I use this as a for-instance only because it is one of the most obvious examples, even if it is also one of the most egregious.
All of this said, though, I strongly recommend it to anybody who is worried that the world is going or has gone to heck. If you've ever worried about a pandemic super-flu, or think global famine is right around the corner because of population, this will at least, likely, put those fears at rest. Which, peace of mind is worth a few hours of your life to read a book, right?… (mais)