# Agency

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- Book: [Agency](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-seligman/agency) ([Agency.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-seligman/agency.md))
- Authors: [Martin Seligman](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-seligman)
- Publisher: John Murray One
- Medium: audio
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- ISBN: 978-13-9984-304-1
- Published: 2026-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

'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.