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2025-03-24
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要環保?先工業化! 2012-02-01 首先需要指齣的是,筆者不是“環保主義者”。筆者贊成保護環境,是為瞭讓人類生活得更好;筆者不贊成那種為瞭保護環境而犧牲人類生活質量的反人類的環保主義。本文的所有觀點都以此為前提。 今天的人們總是把工業時代之前的生活想像得充滿田園...
評分作者提齣的許多觀點幾乎完全沒有得到有力的論證。。。 1.物物交換絕對不是智人的專利,很多動物都有互惠和交換的行為,比如吸血蝙蝠會在自己吃飽的時候把血吐給餓的蝙蝠,換來自己餓的時候的幫助。甚至耶魯大學的經濟學教授keith chen 已經在實驗中證明,捲尾猴完全可以學會使...
評分 評分作者提齣的許多觀點幾乎完全沒有得到有力的論證。。。 1.物物交換絕對不是智人的專利,很多動物都有互惠和交換的行為,比如吸血蝙蝠會在自己吃飽的時候把血吐給餓的蝙蝠,換來自己餓的時候的幫助。甚至耶魯大學的經濟學教授keith chen 已經在實驗中證明,捲尾猴完全可以學會使...
評分要環保?先工業化! 2012-02-01 首先需要指齣的是,筆者不是“環保主義者”。筆者贊成保護環境,是為瞭讓人類生活得更好;筆者不贊成那種為瞭保護環境而犧牲人類生活質量的反人類的環保主義。本文的所有觀點都以此為前提。 今天的人們總是把工業時代之前的生活想像得充滿田園...
圖書標籤: 社會學 經濟學 社會 思想 Sociology 科普 哲學 全球思想傢
讓不同想法互相交換意見,作者在中將其比喻成“let the idea have sex”, 這樣就會産生新的想法。這些新的想法是推動這個社會創新和發展的主要動力。
評分i honestly don't know how i m supposed to feel about this book 我 smell 意識形態說教 but i hate 意識形態 說教 但是 這書 寫得 確實 蠻 readable 我好難
評分典型The Economist
評分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!
評分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!
The Rational Optimist 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載