The Rational Optimist

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。

出版者:Fourth Estate

作者:Matt Ridley

页数:448

出版时间:2010-05-27

价格:GBP 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780007267118

图书标签:全球思想家温室效应商业农业人口Reading

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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（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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（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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用户评价

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

这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买

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