Public Lecture on the Book “The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality”

by Oded Galor

How did Europe soar ahead of previously more advanced civilizations such as China and the Ottoman Empire? Why are Boliviaʼs challenges the opposite of Ethiopiaʼs? Is continued growth compatible with tackling the climate crisis? Making astounding connections across continents and millennia, Oded Galor answers these and many more questions in his book The Journey of Humanity.

Oded Galor is the Herbert Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and known as the founder of Unified Growth Theory. He has contributed to the understanding of the process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe.

Oded Galor was awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), UC Louvain, and from Poznań University of Economics & Business. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is a Research Fellow of CEPR, GLO, and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER and CESifo, a former Sackler Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow of the Economics Department at the Hebrew University.  Furthermore, he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and Co-Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.