Fewer, Richer, Greener

How the world has improved and why optimism about the future is abundantly justified

"A Condorcet for today, Siegel argues persuasively and vividly that human ingenuity triumphs over limits to growth. A wonderful antidote to apocalyptic predictions about humanity's future. It's easy to forget that, in the span of a single lifetime, the lives of billions have been improved and enriched by innovation and progress." —Professor William N. Goetzmann, Yale University, author of Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

"Somewhere between Rev. Thomas Malthus and Voltaire's Dr. Pangloss lies Larry Siegel. Bringing the same sharp analysis, wit, and willingness to break with conventional wisdom that he's applied to investment analysis for many years, Larry is a welcome voice of measured optimism in a world chock full of doomsayers. He doesn't shy away from real problems—but he puts paid to the notion that things are getting worse and worse and that we're all doomed." —Cliff Asness, founder, AQR

"A refreshing look at the state of the world—food, health and longevity, energy, cities, education, freedom, poverty, robots, economic growth, the environment—through the eyes of one of today's most perceptive observers, Fewer, Richer, Greener will entertain, amuse, and enlighten in a way that few other books can. Read, enjoy, and learn—Siegel sees our uncertain future through a completely different set of lenses." —William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World and The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created

"That great explainer of everything to everybody." —Richard Flannery, CEO of The Investment Fund for Foundations

"The arc of history shows we're living longer, getting richer, warring less, and enjoying more freedom. And it's going to continue, naysayers and pessimists be damned. That's the message in Larry Siegel's new book, Fewer, Richer, Greener. Siegel is a polymath with a wonderful ability to explain and support his views without being pompous or preachy. Exploring the nexus of demography, economics, science, and history, Larry provides an honest, clear-eyed view of the present and a realistic, refreshingly optimistic view of the future." —Lee A. Kaplan, M.D., former Director of Clinical Dermatology, University of California San Diego