Agency

Name: Agency
Brand: John Murray Press
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The Psychological History of Human Progress

Read by: Jacques Roy

Author: Martin Seligman

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
10:00:00

Available: 10th September 2026

Digital Audiobook

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Available: 10th September 2026

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'The message of this book is both highly liberating and optimistic', Rory Sutherland

Drawing on six decades of pioneering research and a sweeping reexamination of the last 2500 years-from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Civil Rights Movement-Martin Seligman shows how rises and falls in agency have steered the course of history.

Agency is the big idea for our times: when individuals have confidence, optimism and imagination, civilizations leap forward. In their absence, societies stagnate-no matter how rich their resources or how brilliant their citizens.

This remarkable book shows how individuals can act with agency and, with a clear-eyed view of an AI-transformed future, argues that we are entering the next great era of human flourishing.