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Progress: Can We Do Without It?

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We are now experiencing immense progress, but as an idea it seems inadequate. Our focus is now on insecurity, threat and a sense that economic growth has come at the price of environmental devastation.

In a passionate attempt to 'give a future to the future' Massimo Salvadori traces the turbulent history of an idea. Looking at both its seductiveness and the reasons for its defeats, this book takes us on a journey through revolution, communism, Nazism, social democracy and globalization. It is only by understanding what actually happened to progress, he argues, that we can hope for real development in future.

This powerful essay by a leading political thinker is a manifesto for our times.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published February 15, 2008

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Massimo L. Salvadori

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Massimo Luigi Salvadori, spesso citato come Massimo L. Salvadori (Ivrea, 1936), è uno storico e politico italiano.
Professore emerito, ordinario di Storia delle Dottrine Politiche nell'Università di Torino.
Membro del Comitato scientifico della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi di Torino, nel quale ha coperto per alcuni anni la carica di Presidente. Socio corrispondente dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino dal 1980, è dal 1997 socio nazionale residente nella classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Collabora con il quotidiano la Repubblica.

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