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。
发表于2025-03-18
The Rational Optimist 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
作者提出的许多观点几乎完全没有得到有力的论证。。。 1.物物交换绝对不是智人的专利,很多动物都有互惠和交换的行为,比如吸血蝙蝠会在自己吃饱的时候把血吐给饿的蝙蝠,换来自己饿的时候的帮助。甚至耶鲁大学的经济学教授keith chen 已经在实验中证明,卷尾猴完全可以学会使...
评分作者提出的许多观点几乎完全没有得到有力的论证。。。 1.物物交换绝对不是智人的专利,很多动物都有互惠和交换的行为,比如吸血蝙蝠会在自己吃饱的时候把血吐给饿的蝙蝠,换来自己饿的时候的帮助。甚至耶鲁大学的经济学教授keith chen 已经在实验中证明,卷尾猴完全可以学会使...
评分 评分I came across this book while watching Ridley's speech at The Long Now Foundation from youtube. It impressed me that Ridley incorporated axioms of economics theory of Adam Smith into the explanation of human history. In the last chapter, Ridely was able to ...
评分楼主是这本书的翻译。 这本书交稿之后,前后两位审稿的编辑不约而同地对我说了类似的话: “看了你的译文感觉意思有点费解,查了原文之后才懂了。” 言外之意是,译文似乎并不算错,但还不如原文好理解。 比如原文有一句话是这样: It is my contention that in looking i...
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Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. The Rational Optimist will do for economics what Genome did for genomics and will show that the answer to our problems, imagined or real, is to keep on doing what we've been doing for 10,000 years -- to keep on changing.
虽然不薄,但是看起来很快。看完这本书,感慨下世界没有那么糟,我们要做理性的乐观主义者
评分这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买
评分看完还是乐观不起来…
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评分这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买
The Rational Optimist 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书