About the Book: Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress
The message of this book is both highly liberating and optimistic, Rory
Sutherland
Drawing on six decades of pioneering research and a sweeping reexamination of
the last 2500 years-from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah to the
Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Civil Rights Movement-Martin Seligman
shows how rises and falls in agency have steered the course of history.
Agency is the big idea for our times: when individuals have confidence,
optimism and imagination, civilizations leap forward. In their absence,
societies stagnate-no matter how rich their resources or how brilliant their
citizens.
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