"A Condorcet for today, Siegel argues persuasively and vividly that human ingenuity triumphs over limits to growth. A wonderful antidote to apocalyptic predictions about humanity’s future. It’s easy to forget that, in the span of a single lifetime, the lives of billions have been improved and enriched by innovation and progress." ―Professor William N. Goetzmann, Yale University, author of Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible