
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
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Narrateur(s):
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L. J. Ganser
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Auteur(s):
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Matt Ridley
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Life is getting better 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 200 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 21st 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.
©2010 Matt Ridley (P)2010 HarperCollins PublishersRefreshing perspective on humanity
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Rationally Optimistic
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Good listen.
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This should be required reading.
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Life-changing!!
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One of the best audiobooks I've ever purchased.
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Dare to go against the herd
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Don’t trust everything they teach
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follow up needed
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Second half was marred by a series of extrapolationist long-winded obsessive personal rants denying climate change, ridiculing renewable energy, denouncing organic farming. Such subject matter is poorly presented in two dimensional biases, glossed over as the author’s emotional entrenchment is revealed, unprofessional repeated generalizations of “those people”, alongside endorsements for factory-farming, burning fossil fuels.
Overall a good informative book, but keep your wits about you in the second half where the authors agenda rears it’s head as subtly as a bulldozer driving through a china shop.
Good but Agenda-Laden, biased.
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