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The rational optimist, how prosperity evolves, Matt Ridley

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The rational optimist, how prosperity evolves, Matt Ridley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-420) and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The rational optimist
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
456181103
Responsibility statement
Matt Ridley
Sub title
how prosperity evolves
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Better idea : the unprecedented present -- Collective brain : exchaexchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago -- Manufacture of virtue : barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago -- Feeding of the nine billion : farming after 10,000 years ago -- Triumph of cities : trade after 5,000 years ago -- Escaping Malthus's trap : population after 1200 -- Release of slaves : energy after 1700 -- Invention of invention : increasing returns after 1800 -- Turning points : pessimism after 1900 -- Two great pessimisms of today : Africa and climate after 2010 -- Catallaxy : rational optimism about 2100
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