The rational optimist : how prosperity evolves / Matt Ridley.
- Ridley, Matt.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Description
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Genome" and "The Red Queen" offers a provocative case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity.
Publication/Creation
New York : Harper, 2010.
Physical description
438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Notes
Originally published in Great Britain by Fouth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue : when ideas have sex -- A better today : the unprecedented present -- The collective brain : exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago -- The manufacture of virtue : barter, trust, and rules after 50,000 years ago -- The feeding of the nine billion : farming after 10,000 years ago -- The triumph of cities : trade after 5,000 years ago -- Escaping Malthus's trap : population after 1200 -- The release of slaves : energy after 1700 -- The invention of invention : increasing returns after 1800 -- Turning points : pessimism after 1900 -- The two great pessimisms of today : Africa and climate after 2010 -- The catallaxy : rational optimism about 2100.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineZFU /RIDOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780061452055
- 006145205X