*Promoting Progress*

The author is Michael Magoon, and the subtitle is A Radical New Agenda to Create Abundance For All.  A good introduction to the ideas surrounding progress, here is the author’s particular recipe for progress:

1. A highly efficient food production and distribution system…

2. Trade-based cities…

3. Decentralized political, economic, religious, and ideological power…

4. At least one high-value-added industry that exports…

5. Widespread use of fossil fuels…

You can buy it here.