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Alexander C. R. Hammond
- Heroes of Progress: An Interview with Alex Hammond
- Norman Borlaug: The Father of the Green Revolution | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 1
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 1: Norman Borlaug
- Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch: The Haber-Bosch Process | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 2
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 2: Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch
- Edward Jenner: Smallpox Vaccination | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 3
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 3: Edward Jenner
- Landsteiner and Lewisohn: Blood Transfusions | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 4
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 4: Landsteiner and Lewisohn
- Jonas Salk: The Pioneer of the Polio Vaccine | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 5
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 5: Jonas Salk
- Alexander Fleming: Penicillin | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 6
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 6: Alexander Fleming
- Ronald Ross: The Man Who Discovered That Malaria Spreads via Mosquitoes | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 7
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 7: Ronald Ross
- William Wilberforce: The Man Who Helped to End Slavery | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 8
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 8: William Wilberforce
- Richard Cobden: The Man Who Helped Turn Britain into a Free-trading Nation | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 9
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 9: Richard Cobden
- Barré-Sinoussi & Montagnier: Discovering the Cause of AIDS | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 10
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 10: Barre-Sinoussi & Montagnier
- Maurice Hilleman: The Man Who Developed Over 40 Vaccines | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 11
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 11: Maurice Hilleman
- Joseph Lister: The Father of Modern Surgery | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 12
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 12: Joseph Lister
- James Watt: The Steam Engine | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 13
- Johannes Gutenberg: The Printing Press | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 14
- Pearl Kendrick & Grace Eldering: First Effective Vaccine for the Whooping Cough | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 15
- Abel Wolman & Linn Enslow: Water Purification | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 16
- Malcom McLean: The Modern Intermodal Shipping Container | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 17
- Paul Hermann Müller: The Insecticide Qualities of DDT | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 18
- Louis Pasteur: The Father of Microbiology | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 19
- David Nalin: Oral Rehydration Therapy | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 20
- Alfred Sommer: Vitamin A Deficiency | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 21
- Virginia Apgar: The Apgar Score | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 22
- Willis Carrier: Air Conditioning | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 23
- Frederick Banting & Charles Best: Treatment for Diabetes | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 24
- Tu Youyou: Artemisinin | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 25
- Wilhelm Röntgen: X-rays | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 26
- Kate Sheppard: Women's suffrage | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 27
- Lucy Wills: Folic acid | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 28
- Alessandro Volta: Electric battery | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 29
- Sir John Harington: Flushable toilet | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 30
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 52: Yuan Longping
- Frederick Douglass: Abolitionism | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 48
- John Snow: The Father of Epidemiology | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 45
- James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 44
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 51: Frederick McKinley Jones
- Desiderius Erasmus: Toleration and Peace | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 43
- Vasili Arkhipov: The Man Who Prevented a Nuclear War | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 42
- John Stuart Mill: Freedom | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 41
- Jeremy Bentham: Founder of Utilitarianism | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 40
- Charles Dotter and Andreas Gruentzig: Angioplasty | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 39
- Cesare Beccaria: The father of modern criminal justice | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 38
- James Elam & Peter Safar: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 37
- Wilson Greatbatch: First implantable pacemaker | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 36
- Enrico Fermi: World's first nuclear reactor | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 35
- A Few Forest Fires Don't Mean the World Is Burning
- Alan Turing: Cracking the Nazis’ “Enigma” code | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 34
- Hitchings and Elion: Drug design | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 33
- Benjamin Rubin: Bifurcated needle | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 32
- Willem Kolff: Kidney dialysis | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 31
- Alexander Hammond: The Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity
- Africa Tries Free Trade
- True Environmentalists Should Prioritize Economic Prosperity
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 50: Bill Gates
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 49: Babbage and Lovelace
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 48: Frederick Douglass
- Heroes of Progress, Pt 47: Damadian, Lauterbur and Mansfield
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 46: Astell and Wollstonecraft
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 45: John Snow
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 44: James Madison
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 43: Desiderius Erasmus
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 42: Vasili Arkhipov
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 41: John Stuart Mill
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 40: Jeremy Bentham
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 39: Dotter and Gruentzig
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 38: Cesare Beccaria
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 37: James Elam and Peter Safar
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 36: Wilson Greatbatch
- What Can We Expect from Africa in the 2020s?
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 35: Enrico Fermi
- The 20 Biggest Tech Advances of the Past 20 Years
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 34: Alan Turing
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 33: Hitchings and Elion
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 32: Benjamin Rubin
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 31: Willem Kolff
- Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 29: Alessandro Volta
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 28: Lucy Wills
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 27: Kate Sheppard
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 26: Wilhelm Rontgen
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 25: Tu Youyou
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 24: Banting and Best
- The Cost of Air-Conditioning Fell by 97 Percent Since 1952
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 23: Willis Haviland Carrier
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 22: Virginia Apgar
- Putin's Claim That Liberalism Is "Obsolete" Is Wrong
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 21: Alfred Sommer
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 20: David Nalin
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 19: Louis Pasteur
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 18: Paul Hermann Muller
- Five Reasons Capitalist Chile is Better than Socialist Venezuela
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 17: Malcom McLean
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 16: Abel Wolman and Linn Enslow
- Heroes of Progress Pt. 15: Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 14: Johannes Gutenberg
- Heroes of Progress, Pt. 13: James Watt
- The Deal That Could Kick-Start Africa's Industrial Revolution
- Plugged In Podcast with Marian L. Tupy
- The Compelling Case for Greater Economic Freedom
- From Palace to Parlor, the Surprising History of Ice Cream
- Africa's Free Trade Area Could Lift Millions out of Poverty
- Icelanders Turn $12 Cod into $3,500 Worth of Products
- No, We Are Not Running Out of Forests
- Happy Meals Are Now Even Happier
- The Avengers, Thanos, and Overpopulation
- Zambia's Cholera Outbreak Is Coming Under Control
- How Markets Brought Refrigeration to the Masses
- Post-Brexit Britain Must Turn Its Back on Protectionism
- The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster
- Greatest Agent of Progress According to Theresa May
- Good News! The World Is Getting Freer, Faster
Marian L. Tupy
- Our Editor’s 2024 End of the Year Missive
- Jon Moynihan: How Europe Can Return to Growth
- The Growing Abundance of Finished Goods: 1971-2024
- The Effect of Inflation on US Food Prices: 2019–2024
- Degrowth Means Certain Death for Humanity
- Degrowthers Are the New Barbarians
- The Simon Abundance Index 2024
- How to Combat Gloom and Pessimism
- Our Editor's 2023 End of the Year Missive
- Is This the Best Time to Be Alive?
- What’s Your Beef with 3D-Printed Steaks?
- We Will Never Run Out of Resources
- Reconsidering Spaceship Earth
- Why Are We So Gloomy?
- The Simon Abundance Index 2023
- Why Is Paul Ehrlich So Hard to Ignore?
- 9 Questions on Paul Ehrlich’s Recent Doomsaying
- Still Wrong! New Year’s Paul Ehrlich Interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes
- Our Editor’s End of the Year Message: A Year of Oft-Interrupted Progress
- Peter Thiel’s Pessimism Is (Largely) Mistaken
- The World's Population Reaches 8 Billion People. Resources Have Grown More Abundant.
- Our Editor Interviews Cato’s Deirdre McCloskey
- Superabundance | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
- Superabundance | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
- Abundance Doesn’t End
- Superabundance
- Marian Tupy's Interview with James Pethokoukis
- Dr. Kristian Niemietz: Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
- The Simon Abundance Index 2022
- Axel Kaiser: Political and Economic Changes in Chile
- Human Progress is Neither Even nor Inevitable
- Mark Henry: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland
- Our Editor's End of the Year Missive
- No, Thanksgiving Dinner Will Not Cost You 14 Percent More!
- Kitchen Appliances Are Getting More Abundant
- Terence Kealey: Research and Development
- Paul Ehrlich Ignores Abundance Again
- John Constable: Global Warming and Energy Policy
- Douglas Carswell: Threats to the Enlightenment
- Michela Wrong: The State of Africa
- Rachel Laudan: Cooking in World History
- Breakfast Bounty
- How Much More Prosperous Would the World Be Without China’s One-Child Policy?
- Alan Levinovitz: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Flawed Science
- ‘Space Barons’ & Advantages of a Free Economy
- Matthew Slaboch: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics
- Castro's Cuba: Unfree, Unequal, and Underperforming
- Rising food prices: how bad is it?
- Clay Routledge: U.S. College Students' Attitudes Towards Free Speech and Progress
- Food Prices from the U.S. Unskilled Worker Perspective (1919-2019)
- Food Prices from the U.S. Blue-Collar Worker Perspective (1919-2019)
- Food Abundance from the U.S. Unskilled Worker Perspective (1919-2019)
- Food Abundance from the U.S. Blue-Collar Worker Perspective (1919-2019)
- Humanity’s Most Ancient Enemy May Be on Its Way Out
- Life Has Gotten Sweeter – Literally!
- Ian Vásquez: Progress and Setbacks in Latin America
- U.S. Housing Became Much More Affordable Over The Last 40 Years
- David Starkey: The Cultural Forces That Undermine Our Progress
- John Mueller: The Stupidity of War
- Against Environmental Anti-Humanism
- Peter J. Boettke: The Struggle for a Better World
- Marian Tupy on the Jordan Peterson Podcast
- Charles Kenny: Your World, Better
- Gale Pooley: The Simon Abundance Index
- The Simon Abundance Index 2021
- Stone Age Anti-Capitalism
- Resources Are More Abundant Than Ever, and People Are the Reason
- End of the Year Editor's Note: Good Riddance to 2020
- Norse Gods and Yule Ham
- Marian Tupy on the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast
- Walter E. Williams (1936 – 2020): RIP
- The Changing Cost of a Thanksgiving Dinner
- Disagreeability, Mother of Invention
- Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On
- Featured Discussion of "Ten Global Trends" on Ideas in Progress Podcast
- Tupy Discusses "Ten Global Trends" on Ill Literacy Podcast
- Michael McCullough
- Ronald Bailey
- Our Editor Introduces His First Book: "Ten Global Trends"
- Luck or Insight? The Simon-Ehrlich Bet Re-Examined
- William von Hippel
- Botswana's Remarkable Success Is Due to Markets
- Chelsea Follett
- Michael Shermer
- Joel Mokyr
- Human History Is an Ever-Expanding Circle of Empathy
- Michael Shellenberger
- Steven Pinker
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Is This Goodbye for Hong Kong?
- Angus Deaton
- Johan Norberg
- Matt Ridley
- Jesse Ausubel
- COVID-19 Should Make Us Grateful for Technology
- R.I.P. Board Member Deepak Lal (1940-2020)
- The Simon Abundance Index 2020
- In a Crisis, Pessimism Is Natural but Realism Is Crucial
- Coronavirus and Human Progress
- Thoughts on So-Called "Progress" in Cuba
- How to Think About Our Problems
- The Battle to Feed Humanity Has Been Won
- Human Progress in 2019: Year in Review
- Could the U.K. Become the Next Singapore?
- Why Some Environmentalists Don't Appreciate Prosperity
- An Old-Fashioned Recipe for Economic Growth
- The Planet's Future Shouldn't Be Left to the Catastrophists
- Are Americans Really Worse off Than in the 1970s?
- Hollywood's Apocalypse Obsession Ignores Reality
- The Simon Abundance Index 2019
- Things Are Getting Better and Overpopulation's Not a Problem
- Cosmetic Procedures Are Becoming More Affordable
- Cellphone Access Has Skyrocketed Worldwide
- Five Reasons Capitalist Chile is Better than Socialist Venezuela
- Institutions Continue to Improve in Slovakia
- The Great Miracle of Industrialization
- Beware the Anti-Humanism of the Extremists
- Improvements in Human Well-Being in the New Millennium
- Blue-Collar Workers and Food Prices in America (1919-2019)
- Unskilled Workers and Food Prices in America (1919-2019)
- Rural Life in the past Was a Battle for Survival
- Pollution in Pre-Industrial Europe
- The Romantic Idea of a Plentiful Past Is Pure Fantasy
- Trade Deals with Africa Would Help the Continent Grow
- The Internet Is a Miracle We All Take for Granted
- The Ever-Changing Nature of Work
- Is Moral Progress Real or Just a Myth?
- How Prosperity Democratized Global Tourism
- Capital Punishment Has Declined Dramatically
- Progress on Gay Rights Is Real, but Far from Uniform
- The Jagged Arc of Human Progress
- The Counter-Intuitive Truth About the World's Resources
- The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources
- Growth Is the Ultimate Weapon in Ending Child Labor
- Debunking the Overpopulation Alarmists
- Are We Really Poorer Than Our Parents?
- How Access to Education Will Carry on Booming
- The Miracle that Is the Smartphone
- Romer and Nordhaus: Worthy Nobel Winners
- Plummeting Maternal Mortality Rates Are a Sign of Progress
- Global Income Inequality Is Declining
- How the Market Helped to Make Workplaces Safer
- Progress Has Been Made in the Battle Against Malaria
- How Humanity Won the War on Famine
- The World Has Come a Long Way from Cesspits to Sanitation
- Humanity Is Winning the War on AIDS
- Cities Are Central to Human Flourishing
- The Market Has Achieved What Marx Wanted - Less Labor
- The Reports of the Death of Democracy Are Exaggerated
- Trump Should Revisit the TPP to Rein in China
- Desalination Shows Tech Can Solve Environmental Problems
- From Ancient Declinism to Modern Progress
- Israel Is a Lesson in What Makes Nations Thrive
- Income Inequality: When Does It Matter?
- Rare Earths Crisis in Retrospect
- Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
- Human Progress Turns Five Years Old and Gets a Facelift
- Are We Suffering from a Crisis of Meaning?
- Explaining Our Miraculous Flourishing
- Everything Is On Sale Compared to 1979
- More People, More Ideas, More Innovations, More Value Created
- Zimbabwean Hero Represents Hope for Better African Leadership
- Julian Simon Was Right About Population and Prosperity
- Review of Steven Pinker's New Book "Enlightenment Now"
- What Are the Exceptions to Human Progress?
- An Update on the Global State of Human Freedom
- Things Are Getting Better, So Why Are We All So Gloomy?
- To Be, or Not to Be - Denmark? That Is the Question
- The Enduring Wisdom of Julian Simon
- Mr. Obama, Please Stay Out of the Brexit Debate
- Clinton's "New Generation" of African Leaders Still Around
- South Africa's Highest Court Fights for Democracy by Rebuking Jacob Zuma
- Cuba's Literacy and Lifespans Nothing to Lionize
- Chernobyl: a Personal Recollection
- Venezuela: Victim of Decades of Economic Freedom Losses
- As Venezuela Craters, Appeal of Socialism Remains
- The EU's Mounting Failures Are Pushing Britain Towards the Exit
- Economists Are Often Wrong (and British Voters Ought to Know That)
- The European Union: Separating Myth from Reality
- Cheers to U.S. Beers, Triumphs of Capitalism and Progress
- The World's Getting Better All the Time
- Americans Freer than Most, but the Trend Lines Are Bad
- Castro's 'Accomplishments' in Cuba a Load of Nonsense
- Chile Is Thriving, So Why Is Socialism Rising?
- IMF's Christine Lagarde Found Guilty of Misusing Public Funds
- Putting the Russian Bear in Perspective
- Paul Ehrlich Spoke at Vatican Conference on Biodiversity
- World's Getting Better, but U.S. Democracy Isn't
- Are Freer Countries Just Better?
- Venezuela Shows Socialism Often Leads to Dictatorship
- Socialism's True Legacy Is Immorality
- U.S. Lifespans Long Without Nanny State Interventions
- 241 Years of Independence in U.S., While in Hong Kong...
- Life Under Communism Was No Liberation For Women
- Classical Liberalism Is Incompatible with Imperialism
- Venezuelan Price Controls Lead to Predictable Shortages
- U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO Is a Good Start
- Never Ending Battle Between Capitalism and Socialism
- 100 Years of Communism: Death and Deprivation
- Mugabe's Downfall Is Not the End of Zimbabwe's Misery
- Don't Start Rejoicing Over Mugabe's Fall Just Yet
- There's Nothing Green About Socialism
- How the Debate on Climate Change Is Cooling Down
- Zimbabwe, Mugabe and the Human Nature of Politics
- Free Markets Increase Trust Among People
- Corporations Are Not as Powerful as You Think
- Things Are Looking Up by Any Measure
- Improving Rule of Law in Central Europe
- Free Markets Have Made the World a Better Place
- The United States Should Heed the Lessons of 1917
- Europe's Anti-GMO Stance Is Killing Africans
- The Man Behind the Hong Kong Miracle
- U.S. Cost of Living and Wage Stagnation, 1979-2015
- Compassion, Self-Interest and Envy Shape Redistribution
- Food Fearmongering Should Not Thwart U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal
- Forty Ways the World Is Getting Better
- It's Time to Rethink Foreign Aid Initiatives
- The Questionable Economics of Foreign Aid
- What the Rest of the World Can Learn from Hong Kong
- Man's Ingenuity Is Quenching the World's Thirst
- Fewer People Exposed to Horrors of War
- Only the Rule of Law Can Break the Poverty Cycle
- Prosperity and Income Aren't the Same Thing
- What Does it Mean to Be Poor Today?
- Data as History: Charting the Last 2000 Years of Progress
- Human Conditions Improving at a Remarkable Speed
- The Looming Threat of the Coming German Energy Crisis
- While Africa Starves, Its Leaders Change the Subject
- Natural Gas Drives Energy Costs to Record Lows
- Free Enterprise Is Making the World Better
- Could Britain Become the New Singapore?
- Why the Human Brain Is Our Most Precious Commodity
- Changes in Commodity Prices Show a Richer World
- Air Travel Getting Safer and Cheaper
- The Secret Lives of North Korean Children
- The Most Important Graph in the World
- Globalization and Poverty's Unprecedented Decline
- We Work Less, Have More Leisure Time and Earn More
- Human Freedom Is Up, But Government Quality Is Down
- Celebrate the Industrial Revolution and What Fueled It
- Attitudes on FGM Are Shifting in the Right Direction
- A Realistic, Positive Picture of the State of Humanity
- How Globalization Is Saving the World
- Happy Fiftieth Birthday, Republic of Botswana!
- Rising Prosperity Means Eating More Meat and Seafood
- Computers Allow Us to Accomplish More with Less
- A Beginner's Guide to Central Planning
- Looking Forward to the Bright Future Ahead
- Forget the Hunger Games, Greet the Driverless Tractor
- Sadly, Trade and Commerce Have Always Been Vilified
- Consider This Brief Look at Mugabe's Legacy
- How Can the United States Help Africa?
- Life Expectancy Up Around the World
- Violence, Terrorism Trending Downward
- Africa Is Growing Thanks to the Free Market
- Rapid Shift Away from Central Planning Works Better
- Ex-Soviet States Saw Better Results with Rapid Reforms
- America Is Relatively Safe and Tolerant
- Evolution of Norms Makes Society More Tolerant, Safer
- U.S. Race Relations Are Getting Better
- Recognizing a Safer World After Memorial Day
- Central Planning and Human Self-Delusion
- Energy in the West Cheap and Plentiful Despite Bad Policies
- Will a Robot One Day Take Your Job?
- Liberia Turns to Private Sector for Primary Education
- Ten Reasons to Defect from North Korea
- Rising Gross Domestic Products and Declining Work Hours
- Central Planning and Hunger: a Quick Reminder
- Hong Kong and the Power of Economic Freedom
- Cell Phones Reveal Failures of State-Run Telecommunications
- World Getting Safer, No Daily Threat of Armageddon
- No, Markets Will Not "Starve Humanity" by 2050
- Global Warming Fund a Slush Fund for World's Dictators
- In Africa, Institutions Matter More than Infrastructure
- Apocalyptic Warnings About "Water Wars" Too Pessimistic
- Political Freedom on the Rise Globally Despite Naysayers
- The Best Map You Will See Today (cont.)
- Power of Bad Ideas: Why We Keep Choosing Failed Policies
- By Far the Best Map You Will See Today
- Singapore: the Power of Economic Freedom
- Living Standards Rising in Ex-Communist Countries
- Thanksgiving Dinner Has Become Cheaper over Time
- Air Hostesses Then and Now: How Do They Compare?
- Flying Has Become Safer Over the Years
- Putting Income Inequality in Perspective
- The Saddest Thing About China's One-Child Policy
- Go Ahead, Have a Lasik Eye Surgery!
- China Ends One-Child Policy and Suffering for Millions
- What the Washington Post Gets Wrong About Free Markets
- Denmark is More Free-Market than You Might Think
- Urbanization Is Good for the Environment
- Economic Growth Slashed Global Poverty to Historic Low
- The Most Important Thing that the New York Times Left Out
- Sorry, George Carlin, Plastic Is Biodegradable
- Hans Rosling Predicts End of Poverty by 2030
- The Modern Miracle of Air-Conditioning
- Some Perspective on What We Have to Be Thankful For