The Rational Optimist pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
馬特·裏德利
Matt Ridley
著名科普作傢、牛津大學動物學博士，曾任《經濟學人》專欄編輯。著有多部獲奬作品，包括《人類基因組》、《靈敏基因》、《紅色皇後》等。目前居住在英國。
- 社會學
- 經濟學
- 社會
- 思想
- Sociology
- 科普
- 哲學
- 全球思想傢
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.
具體描述
讀後感
Ridley认为，人类的发展“其实蕴涵着一股必然的潮流”，是涨潮而不是退潮。他的乐观就来自这里；他认为人类历史的发展，是一种进步，还是必然的进步；不仅会越来越好，还没有尽头。他认为我们的未来必然会解决气候问题、人口问题、艾滋病、恐怖主义等种种问题，这是因为，“人...
評分知道人类在稳步前进，是看了《繁荣的背后》之后。记得那本书中开头有个记载很让人惊讶----自从工业革命以来，全球的经济基本上都在以2% 的速度增进，哪怕是期间经历了多少次毁灭性的大战、瘟疫等各种大灾难，却丝毫不能挡住这股前进的洪流。叫人不由得感慨----2，可真是...
評分什么才是推动现代世界的创新永动机的飞轮？为何创新成了惯例？是科技的驱动？是资本的功劳？是货币的应用？是知识产权的授予？是政府发力？——都不是，是交换的威力。思想观念日益频繁的交换带来了现代世界速度日益加快的创新。 正是因为有这么多的贫困、饥饿和疾病，全世界...
評分 評分在weibo上写了一点，把它写完吧，首先把weibo上的转过来，稍微有点改写，添加了一些link -------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Ridley是我最中意的科学作家，文风华彩渊博，抛出八卦的速度今人叹为观止，二个星期断断继继看完了他的最近著作...
用戶評價
這本書講的東西非常 counter-intuitive，但假如你認真看完瞭，會徹底改變你的三觀！
评分對環保控，可再生能源控，田園牧歌控，全球變暖控，“今不如昔”控等各種末世悲觀小清新的有理有據的駁斥。《Quest》似的的科普大百科全書。
评分觀點有點意思 敘述實在差勁
评分一本論證世界正在變得越來越好的書。因為和我的想法正好對路，看到作者用各種證據充分論證瞭就覺得很開心。前麵的幾章寫得比較好一些，最後的兩三章感覺有點不夠有說服力。有些部分寫得有點羅嗦。
评分Be critical towards the world if you want to make it a better place but quit being all whiny and depressing because the world we are living in is absolutely wonderful and amazing.
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