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2024-04-25
The Rational Optimist 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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 ...
评分为什么聪明人总是对未来感到悲观——以及为什么他们是错的 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. ——Dante,Inferno 入此门者,弃绝希冀。 ——但丁,《地狱篇》 我用这句话来形容“反对虚假希望”者的心态,他们说,不仅改良是虚假希望,革命也是虚假希望。 当然这样...
评分给 “怀旧的环保主义”看看病 作者:邝海炎 近段时间,“你幸福吗?”的提问很流行。在时下中国,也许你孩子会吃到毒奶粉,也许你爱人出门会遇到70码,也许你还会“被精神病”……但尽管这样,从历时态的人类状况看,我们每个人获得幸福的物质基础还是在增加...
评分要环保?先工业化! 2012-02-01 首先需要指出的是,笔者不是“环保主义者”。笔者赞成保护环境,是为了让人类生活得更好;笔者不赞成那种为了保护环境而牺牲人类生活质量的反人类的环保主义。本文的所有观点都以此为前提。 今天的人们总是把工业时代之前的生活想像得充满田园...
评分(让本文影响你对此书的评价之前,请注意两个前提:我给此书的评价是四星,里德利是我每本必读的作家;赞美之辞我在豆瓣和微博上都已说过了,这里都是批评。) 在第二、三两章中,里德利提出了一个观点:(我的总结)导致现代智人经历一系列戏剧性的快速进化,特别是语言和语...
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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.
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评分这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买
The Rational Optimist 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书