The Rational Optimist 在线电子书 图书标签: 社会学 经济学 社会 思想 Sociology 科普 哲学 全球思想家
发表于2024-11-21
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i honestly don't know how i m supposed to feel about this book 我 smell 意识形态说教 but i hate 意识形态 说教 但是 这书 写得 确实 蛮 readable 我好难
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?)
评分典型The Economist
评分观点有点意思 叙述实在差劲
评分现在西方畅销书都这种风格了么?嘘嘘叨叨反反复复……
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。
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.
为什么聪明人总是对未来感到悲观——以及为什么他们是错的 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. ——Dante,Inferno 入此门者,弃绝希冀。 ——但丁,《地狱篇》 我用这句话来形容“反对虚假希望”者的心态,他们说,不仅改良是虚假希望,革命也是虚假希望。 当然这样...
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 ...
评分为什么聪明人总是对未来感到悲观——以及为什么他们是错的 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. ——Dante,Inferno 入此门者,弃绝希冀。 ——但丁,《地狱篇》 我用这句话来形容“反对虚假希望”者的心态,他们说,不仅改良是虚假希望,革命也是虚假希望。 当然这样...
评分为什么聪明人总是对未来感到悲观——以及为什么他们是错的 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate. ——Dante,Inferno 入此门者,弃绝希冀。 ——但丁,《地狱篇》 我用这句话来形容“反对虚假希望”者的心态,他们说,不仅改良是虚假希望,革命也是虚假希望。 当然这样...
评分在weibo上写了一点,把它写完吧,首先把weibo上的转过来,稍微有点改写,添加了一些link -------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Ridley是我最中意的科学作家,文风华彩渊博,抛出八卦的速度今人叹为观止,二个星期断断继继看完了他的最近著作...
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