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。
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.
發表於2024-05-18
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相信未來《理性樂觀派》 對於人類的未來,我們聽得最多的就是各種悲觀的預言,相比之下樂觀派好像被擠得沒有一席之地。所以看看樂觀派的觀點有時候也很有好處。在關於全球變暖的爭論中,就有人持樂觀的態度,列舉曆史上的溫度變化,來證明現在上升的這一點點溫度,不應該...
評分為什麼聰明人總是對未來感到悲觀——以及為什麼他們是錯的 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. ——Dante,Inferno 入此門者,棄絕希冀。 ——但丁,《地獄篇》 我用這句話來形容“反對虛假希望”者的心態,他們說,不僅改良是虛假希望,革命也是虛假希望。 當然這樣...
評分創新與自由 2012-01-24 對於市場經濟和自發秩序,有許多人或者是缺乏理解,或者是缺乏信心。有經濟學傢就曾說過:自發秩序就是等死。還有人說,市場經濟不能靠自己來維持,隻能靠政府施加的外力來維持,因為封閉係統如果沒有外界的能量輸入,必然會變得越來越無序。 但是持這...
評分記得幾年前,有一段時間東北老傢突然開始流行吃所謂的野菜,有大飯店專門供作各種野菜和生蔬,飯店門前停滿瞭各路豪車,然而各路食客來吃的卻是蔬菜,很多菜連一絲肉丁都沒有,這群從飢餓記憶中走齣不到30年的人群真是讓人嘖嘖稱奇。不過時至今日,其實也算見怪不怪瞭,好像更...
評分創新與自由 2012-01-24 對於市場經濟和自發秩序,有許多人或者是缺乏理解,或者是缺乏信心。有經濟學傢就曾說過:自發秩序就是等死。還有人說,市場經濟不能靠自己來維持,隻能靠政府施加的外力來維持,因為封閉係統如果沒有外界的能量輸入,必然會變得越來越無序。 但是持這...
圖書標籤: 社會學 經濟學 社會 思想 Sociology 科普 哲學 全球思想傢
這是一本告訴大傢不要“鬍思亂想,好好乾活就行”的書。講的道理基本沒有問題,可以算作科普書。
評分現在西方暢銷書都這種風格瞭麼?噓噓叨叨反反復復……
評分一百頁之內就應該寫完的話題
評分Not worth reading for me, feel like that it’s easily dwarfed by those books like Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”.
評分這是一本告訴大傢不要“鬍思亂想,好好乾活就行”的書。講的道理基本沒有問題,可以算作科普書。
The Rational Optimist 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載