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ISBN 10: 0061452068
ISBN 13: 978-0061452062
Author: Matt Ridley
“A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven Pinker
In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls cultural evolution—will inevitably increase human prosperity. Fans of the works of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) will find much to ponder and enjoy in The Rational Optimist.
For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, 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. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives as never before.
An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.
The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves 1st Table of contents:
Chapter One – A better today: the unprecedented present
Chapter Two – The collective brain: exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago
Chapter Three – The manufacture of virtue: barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago
Chapter Four – The feeding of the nine billion: farming after 10,000 years ago
Chapter Five – The triumph of cities: trade after 5,000 years ago
Chapter Six – Escaping Malthus’s trap: population after 1200
Chapter Seven – The release of slaves: energy after 1700
Chapter Eight – The invention of invention: increasing returns after 1800
Chapter Nine – Turning points: pessimism after 1900
Chapter Ten – The two great pessimisms of today: Africa and climate after 2010
Chapter Eleven – The catallaxy: rational optimism about 2100
Notes and references
Index
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