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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。
- 社会学
- 经济学
- 社会
- 思想
- Sociology
- 科普
- 哲学
- 全球思想家
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.
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这个世界似乎永远充满着悲观的论断，大部分看起来都事实确凿、逻辑严明，他们从当前现实生活中的种种细节，推断出未来世界将不可避免地走向衰落。从温室效应、经济崩溃、千年虫甚至末日审判，悲观的推断不仅曾经出现，并且还将继续推陈出新。在革新和转折的时代，这样的论断与...
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...
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 ...
评分什么才是推动现代世界的创新永动机的飞轮？为何创新成了惯例？是科技的驱动？是资本的功劳？是货币的应用？是知识产权的授予？是政府发力？——都不是，是交换的威力。思想观念日益频繁的交换带来了现代世界速度日益加快的创新。 正是因为有这么多的贫困、饥饿和疾病，全世界...
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观点有点意思 叙述实在差劲
评分值得一读.整体来说一般.内容并不是简洁紧凑信息含量大 启发人思考 那种
评分让不同想法互相交换意见，作者在中将其比喻成“let the idea have sex”, 这样就会产生新的想法。这些新的想法是推动这个社会创新和发展的主要动力。
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