Books by Charles Kenny
Found 4 books
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...
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.
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.
The author is Charles Kenny and the subtitle is Why Global Development is Succeeding — and How We Can Improve the World Even More .