The past 250 years have witnessed the most spectacular increase in human well-being in history: 1.3 billion people have been lifted out of poverty, life expectancy has soared globally, child mortality has collapsed, and this is the safest period in recorded history.
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Steven CodkinEvidence Quote
“1.3 billion people lifted out of poverty by official statistics... Life expectancy in most parts of the world has soared... that's my colleague Angus Deaton in his book the great escape. He won the Nobel Prize for economics.”
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Stephen Kotkin: Sphere of Influence I - The Gift of Geopolitics: How Worlds are Made, and Unmade— IWMViennaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:14:33 PM
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