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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。
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Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. The Rational Optimist will do for economics what Genome did for genomics and will show that the answer to our problems, imagined or real, is to keep on doing what we've been doing for 10,000 years -- to keep on changing.
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创新与自由 2012-01-24 对于市场经济和自发秩序，有许多人或者是缺乏理解，或者是缺乏信心。有经济学家就曾说过：自发秩序就是等死。还有人说，市场经济不能靠自己来维持，只能靠政府施加的外力来维持，因为封闭系统如果没有外界的能量输入，必然会变得越来越无序。 但是持这...
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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 ...
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评分虽然不薄，但是看起来很快。看完这本书，感慨下世界没有那么糟，我们要做理性的乐观主义者
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