The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
By Gregg Easterbrook
Random House. $24.95.
Look at it this way: The prescription wonder drugs whose cost youcomplain about keep you well long enough to possibly need even more,different wonder drugs (about whose cost you can complain though theykeep you well long enough to need . . . etc. ad infinitum).
That sounds outrageous, but the fact that you don't think that waygoes to the heart of Gregg Easterbrook's thesis in The ProgressParadox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse: "In the UnitedStates and Western Europe, almost everything is getting better foralmost everybody, …
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