Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In 1925, England was about as rich as India is today, and the world was small and poor. What happened next had never happened before in human history.
In this clip from his talk on the McKinsey Global Institute's book A Century of Plenty, Chris Bradley lays out the numbers behind the most extraordinary century of economic progress ever recorded: the global economy grew 24 times larger, income per person rose six-fold, and the population grew four-fold. Lives, on average, got 40 years longer.
Our grandparents pulled this off with no code and no playbook. Chris asks what it would take to do it again.
In 1925, England was about as rich as India is today, and the world was small and poor. What happened next had never happened before in human history.
In this clip from his talk on the McKinsey Global Institute's book A Century of Plenty, Chris Bradley lays out the numbers behind the most extraordinary century of economic progress ever recorded: the global economy grew 24 times larger, income per person rose six-fold, and the population grew four-fold. Lives, on average, got 40 years longer.
Our grandparents pulled this off with no code and no playbook. Chris asks what it would take to do it again.
