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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Ridley认为，人类的发展“其实蕴涵着一股必然的潮流”，是涨潮而不是退潮。他的乐观就来自这里；他认为人类历史的发展，是一种进步，还是必然的进步；不仅会越来越好，还没有尽头。他认为我们的未来必然会解决气候问题、人口问题、艾滋病、恐怖主义等种种问题，这是因为，“人...
评分 评分楼主是这本书的翻译。 这本书交稿之后，前后两位审稿的编辑不约而同地对我说了类似的话： “看了你的译文感觉意思有点费解，查了原文之后才懂了。” 言外之意是，译文似乎并不算错，但还不如原文好理解。 比如原文有一句话是这样： It is my contention that in looking i...
评分知道人类在稳步前进，是看了《繁荣的背后》之后。记得那本书中开头有个记载很让人惊讶----自从工业革命以来，全球的经济基本上都在以2% 的速度增进，哪怕是期间经历了多少次毁灭性的大战、瘟疫等各种大灾难，却丝毫不能挡住这股前进的洪流。叫人不由得感慨----2，可真是...
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一百页之内就应该写完的话题
评分弃读因为挺无聊，并没有什么不是我们已经知道的内容。
评分书写的很流畅，但论点无甚新意，我自己已经悟到，另外本书自由主义的意识形态太重，使得其中错误也不少。另外就是写通史不能细节，而且其中细节也有错，不过这个是通病，可以原谅
评分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。
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？）
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