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Getting Better
From Charles Kenny (2021-04-09)

Your World, Better is written for the smart and engaged middle school student.  It looks at how America and the World has changed since the reader’s parents and grandparents were young: what has happened to health and wealth, homes, school and work, rights and democracy, war and the environment, happiness and depression.   It talks about the things that have gotten better, the sometimes-intensifying challenges that remain, and what readers can do about them.  (Some of you might hear echoes of my...

Plague Cycle
That was then, this is now, now it’s now again (2021-01-21)

That is from Charles Kenny’s new and excellent The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease , which was started well before Covid.

The upside of down
How much does America benefit from the growth of emerging nations? (2014-01-18)

For more on related points, read Charles’s new and excellent book The Upside of Down , not to be confused with Megan McArdle’s new and excellent The New Up Side of Down , a single space can make all the difference in the world.

Getting better
*Getting Better* (2011-02-15)

The author is Charles Kenny and the subtitle is Why Global Development is Succeeding — and How We Can Improve the World Even More .

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