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The Ezra Klein Show
He highlighted Factfulness, noting its impact on understanding global data and its profound influence on his thinking about the world.
what are three books you'd recommend to the audience so my first book is called factfulness and it's by Hans Roslain and it looks at the long history of many measures of human wellbeing and global cha...
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Episode: Is Green Growth Possible?
He highlighted Factfulness, noting its impact on understanding global data and its profound influence on his thinking about the world.
what are three books you'd recommend to the audience so my first book is called factfulness and it's by Hans Roslain and it looks at the long history of many measures of human wellbeing and global change but more importantly kind of gives you know 10 key rules or pitfalls that kind of guide you into how to understand the world how to understand data how to understand the information ecosystem and how that shapes your thinking in the world
Episode: What Does It Mean to Give Well?
Factfulness was recommended as a book that brings global health data to a wide audience and argues that accurate understanding of the world is essential for prioritising aid.
One is Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to the world. It's, say, the core argument of the book is something like in order to prioritize correctly, we need to understand the world accurately.
And then for me, Hans Rosling's site Gapminder was one of the things that got me very excited about this work back in 2006.
Episode: What Does It Mean to Give Well?
He described it as a book that presents global health data and argues that accurate understanding of the world is essential for correct prioritization.
One is Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to the world. It's, say, the core argument of the book is something like in order to prioritize correctly, we need to understand the world accurately.
