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Move Up

Move Up

Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't

Summary

With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually. This provocative, ambitious and entertaining book devises a formula that will allow countries and individuals to assess their own potential for upward mobility. Drawing on science and statistics as much as on human instinct and emotion, Move UP reconsiders the modern world with a motion to improving it.

Reviews

  • Not since The Naked Ape have I seen a book that so gleefully revels in tweaking the nose of conventional sensitivities. Whether you love it or hate it, this quirkily perceptive - or insouciantly provocative - book will enliven dinner party conversations, and will delight and infuriate in equal measure
    Richard Dawkins, best-selling author of THE SELFISH GENE and THE GOD DELUSION

About the authors

Clotaire Rapaille

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Andrés Roemer

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