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What are the keys to human progress? Over the past two hundred years, stunning advances in health, wealth and life expectancy have fundamentally changed the human experience. But this has not been an accident of history. Drawing on a lifetime of research, Oded Galor identifies the universal forces behind this change, and in doing so, unlocks the mystery of human development.

Galor's groundbreaking vision challenges many assumptions. The game-changing revolution of recent centuries was not industrialisation, but mass education; not the era of child labour, but its end. New technologies may have raised living standards, but this has only happened by reducing family size and promoting greater gender equality. How did Europe outpace previously more advanced civilisations such as China and the Ottoman Empire? Why are Bolivia's challenges the opposite of Ethiopia's?

For anyone interested in human development, specifically sociology, what unique factors have led humanity from stagnation to development, gender equality, and investment in education.