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Oded Galor: The Journey of Humanity

The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)

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This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and international bestseller - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future... The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetime's scientific investigation, Oded Galor's ground-breaking new vision overturns a host of long-held assumptions.

A great historical fresco.

Le Monde

Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery.

Lewis Dartnell

"A wildly ambitious attempt to do for economics what Newton, Darwin or Einstein did for their fields: develop a theory that explains almost everything ... an inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork, the boldest possible attempt to write the economic history of humanity."

New Statesman

There will be inevitable comparisons with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens ... If you need an evidence-based antidote to doomscrolling, here it is.

The Guardian

A large-scale survey of human history... The heart of the matter is why some countries grow and some don't... Perhaps growth-mad Liz Truss should have read it. You certainly should.

The Times

Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something.

The Washington Post
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Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)

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Organized in collaboration with the Fondation CANDIDA (under the auspices of the Fondation de Luxembourg)

Support: neimënster

Biographies

Alexander Hagelüken studied economics in Munich. Since 2015 he has been executive editor for economic policy at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Previously, he was head of the financial section of the SZ, European correspondent in Brussels, parliamentary correspondent in Bonn and Berlin. He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work. He published the books Das Ende des Geldes (2020), Lasst uns länger arbeiten (2019) and Das gespaltene Land (2017).

Oded 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.

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21.06.2023

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