馬特·裏德利
Matt Ridley
著名科普作傢、牛津大學動物學博士,曾任《經濟學人》專欄編輯。著有多部獲奬作品,包括《人類基因組》、《靈敏基因》、《紅色皇後》等。目前居住在英國。
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.
震荡平衡的人类历史,以为这两件事:首先不会太离谱,总会是沿着某一个均线震荡;其次,可以说每时每刻都是挺离谱的,因为不是太过这样了,就是太过那样了。 这个时代的中国是怎么回事呢?是个言论和思想自由的初期,所以人们补偿性的大声说话,而说粗话和说批评的话,显然更...
評分 評分在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...
評分 評分相信未来《理性乐观派》 对于人类的未来,我们听得最多的就是各种悲观的预言,相比之下乐观派好像被挤得没有一席之地。所以看看乐观派的观点有时候也很有好处。在关于全球变暖的争论中,就有人持乐观的态度,列举历史上的温度变化,来证明现在上升的这一点点温度,不应该...
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