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马特·里德利
Matt Ridley
著名科普作家、牛津大学动物学博士，曾任《经济学人》专栏编辑。著有多部获奖作品，包括《人类基因组》、《灵敏基因》、《红色皇后》等。目前居住在英国。
- 社会学
- 经济学
- 社会
- 思想
- Sociology
- 科普
- 哲学
- 全球思想家
Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years. Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization—which started more than 100,000 years ago—has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair. This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.
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這本書講的東西非常 counter-intuitive，但假如你認真看完了，會徹底改變你的三觀！
评分這本書講的東西非常 counter-intuitive，但假如你認真看完了，會徹底改變你的三觀！
评分典型The Economist
评分這本書講的東西非常 counter-intuitive，但假如你認真看完了，會徹底改變你的三觀！
评分Not worth reading for me, feel like that it’s easily dwarfed by those books like Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”.
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