“WHY 2018 WAS THE BEST YEAR IN HUMAN HISTORY.”

January 11, 2019 at 9:51 PM · Economics, History, Politics

“WHY 2018 WAS THE BEST YEAR IN HUMAN HISTORY.” Nicholas Kristof had an op ed with that headline in the New York Times (January 5, 2019). Kristof has lots of support for his thesis.

For one example, Kristof writes: “Until about the 1950s, a majority of humans had always lived in “extreme poverty,” defined as less than about $2 a person per day. When I was a university student in the early 1980s, 44 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty.

Now, fewer than 10 percent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, as adjusted for inflation.”

Apparently Kristof writes a similar op ed annually.

It is terribly important.