作者：MattRidley
出版社：Harper
副标题：HowProsperityEvolves
出版年：2010-5-18
页数：448
定价：GBP17.26
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780061452055
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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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。
评论 ······
弃读因为挺无聊，并没有什么不是我们已经知道的内容。
这是一本告诉大家不要“胡思乱想，好好干活就行”的书。讲的道理基本没有问题，可以算作科普书。
這本書講的東西非常 counter-intuitive，但假如你認真看完了，會徹底改變你的三觀！
对环保控，可再生能源控，田园牧歌控，全球变暖控，“今不如昔”控等各种末世悲观小清新的有理有据的驳斥。《Quest》似的的科普大百科全书。
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