An Introduction to Progress Studies
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Progress Studies is an emerging field of intellectual inquiry that studies the past to create a better future. Below is a series of articles that I wrote to introduce newcomers to the field. I recommend that you read the articles in the displayed order.
What is Progress Studies?
This is the first post of what I anticipate to be an extended series of posts on the field of Progress Studies. My guess is that most of you have never heard of the term, Progress Studies, so I am going to start with a very broad overview of the topic in this post.
The Rebirth of Progress Studies
This is the second post of what I anticipate to be an extended series of posts on the field of Progress Studies. In my previous article in my series on Progress Studies, I defined Progress Studies and showed how its “pre-history” goes back as least as far as the Enlightenment. I also claimed that as the social sciences diversified and professionalized i…
The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies (this article) Key questions Progress Studies must answer
Key questions Progress Studies must answer
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer (this article)
The 9 Essential Books for Progress Studies
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer
Key concepts every Progress researcher should understand
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer
Defining Progress
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer
Why Progress is not human flourishing
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer
Countering objections to the concept of progress
This article is part of my ongoing series on Progress Studies. You can read more on the topic in the following posts: What is Progress Studies? The Rebirth of Progress Studies The 12 Core Tenets of Progress Studies Key questions Progress Studies must answer
The Five Keys to Progress
The following is an excerpt from my book From Poverty to Progress: Understanding Humanity’s Greatest Achievement. You can purchase discounted copies of my book at my website, or pay full prize at Amazon. To implement viable policies that promote human material progress, we first must understand:
Why studying Progress may be an antidote to your troubles
The following is an excerpt from my book From Poverty to Progress: Understanding Humanity’s Greatest Achievement. You can purchase discounted copies of my book at my website, or pay full prize at Amazon. And, yes, it has been read and recommended by Stephen Pinker, a world-renowned psychologist. See the bottom for details…
How and why Commercial Societies created material progress
In my book series and this Substack article, I have made the claim that: While the Industrial Revolution was a critical breakthrough in human material progress, it was not the beginning of progress (as most economic historians believe) Commercial societies
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I have been an enthusiastic member of the Progress studies movement since just after its announcement in 2019. In fact, if you include the time when I was conducting research for my From Poverty to Progress book series, I was a “member” long before it was even created!
Tis is the nature of Substack. I have the opposite problem, most of my older stuff was simply not as good. Over time, Risk & Progress has evolved its mission, only reaching its current form about a year ago. Most of my early stuff was transferred from Medium as well, where there was a very different audience. I have steadily been deleting out older essays, editing and revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting them. I think we are unique in trying to compile a curated collection, I am revising mine daily at this point: https://www.lianeon.org/p/starthere