The Human Advantage
The Human Advantage makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption. This book pulls back the curtain on what's really happening in our economy, dispatching myths about capitalism, greed, and upward mobility. Destined to take its place alongside classics, The Human Advantage is the essential book for understanding the future of American work, and how each of us can make this era of staggering change work on our behalf.
Praise for The Human Advantage
"The blistering pace of technological change has left many Americans uncertain about their place in the 21st-century economy. But as Jay Richards wisely reminds us, no machine will ever be able to replicate what makes us truly human: Our creativity, and our virtue. The Human Advantage masterfully demonstrates that we need not fear the future and that a life of happiness still awaits those with the courage to pursue it."
— Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute
"Boldly upends what Richards calls 'the greatest delusion of our age...the paradoxical penchant to deny our own agency while attributing agency to the machines we create.' Richards commands all the wisdom of Michael Novak and transcends it with a Renaissance range of mastery of the sciences and an infectious genius for storytelling."
— George Gilder, bestselling author of Wealth and Poverty
“Jay Richards brings an agile pen and a synthetical mind to the task of outlining and defending the basis of human flourishing in this new age of Smart Machines. In The Human Advantage, Richards gives us a concise history of revolutions in human work, from prehistory to the present, and how they have changed our world and our lives. He addresses the latest economic and moral challenges and opportunities presented to us by the rise of thinking machines. The way forward he charts is firmly grounded in the unique dignity, strength, and destiny that make us truly human.”
— Rev. Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute