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2024-12-22
The Rational Optimist 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
(讓本文影響你對此書的評價之前,請注意兩個前提:我給此書的評價是四星,裏德利是我每本必讀的作傢;贊美之辭我在豆瓣和微博上都已說過瞭,這裏都是批評。) 在第二、三兩章中,裏德利提齣瞭一個觀點:(我的總結)導緻現代智人經曆一係列戲劇性的快速進化,特彆是語言和語...
評分 評分(讓本文影響你對此書的評價之前,請注意兩個前提:我給此書的評價是四星,裏德利是我每本必讀的作傢;贊美之辭我在豆瓣和微博上都已說過瞭,這裏都是批評。) 在第二、三兩章中,裏德利提齣瞭一個觀點:(我的總結)導緻現代智人經曆一係列戲劇性的快速進化,特彆是語言和語...
評分相信未來《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...
評分樓主是這本書的翻譯。 這本書交稿之後,前後兩位審稿的編輯不約而同地對我說瞭類似的話: “看瞭你的譯文感覺意思有點費解,查瞭原文之後纔懂瞭。” 言外之意是,譯文似乎並不算錯,但還不如原文好理解。 比如原文有一句話是這樣: It is my contention that in looking i...
圖書標籤: 社會學 經濟學 社會 思想 Sociology 科普 哲學 全球思想傢
現在西方暢銷書都這種風格瞭麼?噓噓叨叨反反復復……
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!
評分典型The Economist
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。
評分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.
The Rational Optimist 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載