What are the keys to human progress?
Why are living standards so unequal around the world?
How might we all thrive and survive?

In The Journey of Humanity, Oded Galor offers a revelatory explanation of how we became, only very recently, the unique species to have escaped a life of subsistence poverty, enjoying previously unthinkable wealth and longevity. He reveals why this process has been so unequal around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today. He shows why so many of our efforts to improve lives have failed and how they might succeed.