{"product_id":"slowdown-danny-dorling-9780300257960","title":"Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - And Why It's a Good Thing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown--of population growth, economies, and technological innovation​ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be propelling our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danny Dorling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300257961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300257960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021","brand":"Danny Dorling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047608611071,"sku":"9780300257960","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7519993a-e3f2-46da-936e-71b392621d49.jpg?v=1684991194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slowdown-danny-dorling-9780300257960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}