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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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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...
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...
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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。
评分Be critical towards the world if you want to make it a better place but quit being all whiny and depressing because the world we are living in is absolutely wonderful and amazing.
评分印象比较深的：1. 现代西方社会（包括日本）生育率下降到低于人口增长率，即老年化。原因也许不是因为人民悲观，而是安于现状（视个人享受为先）。其结果是否世界人口最终被穆斯林取代？或是穆斯林人口在达到某一峰值后，也会逐步降低？2. 关于全球暖化，戈尔引用的2000名科学家的论述，如果细看，他们说的是大概率的情况是温度微升，只有小概率会大升。而现在采取的很多措施/政策，比如生物燃油，对预防小概率的发生用处甚微。更像是向某些利益团体的利益倾斜。 3. 现代社会中小政府比大政府的危害更少（面对2020的疫情，这个推论是否还有效？）
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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