Welcome to the JBP podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. This is season four episode 18. This episode features Marion Tupi and Jordan Peterson and was recorded on March 24th, 2021.

Marion Tupi is a senior policy analyst at the Cato Institute Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of 10 Global Trends every smart person should know.

An excellent book, if I do say so myself. Marion and dad discuss a variety of information critical to the direction of the world as outlined in his book, 10 Global Trends.

They discuss each of the 10 positive trends over the last century leading to a better, richer world overall for most of humanity.

They explore how impactful these trends are and why the trajectory of societies is looking less apocalyptic than most people may believe.

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Hello, everyone. I'm pleased to have with me today, Dr. Marion L. Tupi, who is the editor of human progress dot org.

A senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of the Simon project.

He specializes in globalization and the study of global well-being, as well as the politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. His work has been published or featured in major print and non print media outlets all throughout the English speaking world.

Dr. Tupi received his BA in international relations and classics from the University of the Wittswater's Rand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in international relations from the University of St Andrews in Great Britain.

He is the co-author of a recent book, Ten Global Trends, that every smart person needs to know, and many other trends you will find interesting. It's a beautiful book.

And so that's an accomplishment in and of itself.

It's also an extremely interesting book, wide ranging, and necessary in my estimation.

Because most of what we consume in relationship to global occurrences, economic and otherwise, is negative.

And that's part of the reason that I wanted to talk to Dr. Tupi today, because his work is in the same vein as Bjorn Lomburg's work and Matt Ridley's work among other people.

And putting forward Stephen Pinker, putting forward a narrative of continued and rapid progress that seems at odds in terms of content and psychologically with virtually everything that seems to make up the major media trend story, zeitgeist.

So welcome, Dr. Tupi. Marien, it's really good to see you. Thanks for agreeing to talk to me today.

I'm delighted to be with you, and welcome back. It's great to have you back in the fight, so to speak.

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