It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years"It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years provides a much needed antidote to the negativism we usually read and hear." "This research study documents how almost every indicator of health, environmental quality, safety, welfare, and social conditions reveals great progress over the past 100 years. A few observations include the following: accidental deaths have dropped by 61 percent despite all the additional cars and airplanes and the millions of people using them; the workweek is 30 percent shorter; four times as many adults are getting their high school degrees and six times as many women have earned bachelor's degrees; manufacturing wages are four times higher; household assets are seven times greater; and air pollution emissions fell by at least 50 percent relative to economic output." "This book boldly shatters the myth that the world's best days are behind it. "There has been more improvement in the human condition in the past 100 years than in all previous centuries combined since man first appeared on the earth," write the authors. "This is the best time on earth to have ever lived." And it's getting better all the time." --Book Jacket. |
What people are saying - Write a review
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
It's getting better all the time: 100 greatest trends of the last 100 years
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictHow has the United States changed over the past century? Is life truly better now than it was in the past? Using statistical reports and other historical materials, Moore (fiscal policy studies, Cato ... Read full review
It's getting better all the time: 100 greatest trends of the last 100 years
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictHow has the United States changed over the past century? Is life truly better now than it was in the past? Using statistical reports and other historical materials, Moore (fiscal policy studies, Cato ... Read full review
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
20th century accidents According Americans amount Annual average better birth Bureau capita Census Center compared consumption cost countries death rate decades decline developed disease dollars early earned economic Economist Education electric Energy Environmental example expectancy fact fallen falling Federal Federal Reserve Board figure Freedom gains growth half Health higher Historical Statistics homes households Housing human improved income increased Index Indicators industry Institute invention late least less living major measures miles million mortality natural past percent Percentage poor population poverty Productivity progress Quote race recent record relative Report Research Reserve rise risen Robert Safety Series shows Simon social society SOURCE spending standards Statistical Abstract Survey Table teen trend United University various wages Washington whites women workers York
Popular passages
Page 20 - The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years |
| Authors | Stephen Moore, Julian Lincoln Simon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cato Institute, 2000 |
| ISBN | 1882577965, 9781882577965 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic Conditions Business & Economics / Reference History / United States / 20th Century Social Science / Statistics |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |