The rational optimist how prosperity evolves
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.
| Main Author: | Ridley, Matt. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Harper Perennial ed. |
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Table of 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.