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...
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.
楼主是这本书的翻译。 这本书交稿之后，前后两位审稿的编辑不约而同地对我说了类似的话： “看了你的译文感觉意思有点费解，查了原文之后才懂了。” 言外之意是，译文似乎并不算错，但还不如原文好理解。 比如原文有一句话是这样： It is my contention that in looking i...
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创新进化史：一股永远向上的力量 The biological, cultural and economic forces behind human progress 人类进步背后是怎样的生物、文化和经济力量？ May 13th 2010 | From The Economist print edition The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley. H...
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1 有用 苏大鹅 2011-11-03 15:37:12
虽然不薄，但是看起来很快。看完这本书，感慨下世界没有那么糟，我们要做理性的乐观主义者
0 有用 大陆演员 2012-06-20 15:38:22
这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买
1 有用 莘莘 2017-07-22 05:38:31
看完还是乐观不起来…
0 有用 宝宝TWO 2017-03-18 20:26:34
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1 有用 莘莘 2017-07-22 05:38:31
看完还是乐观不起来…
0 有用 宝宝TWO 2017-03-18 20:26:34
幼稚
0 有用 大陆演员 2012-06-20 15:38:22
这个英文版 各大机场里 当时都有买
1 有用 苏大鹅 2011-11-03 15:37:12
虽然不薄，但是看起来很快。看完这本书，感慨下世界没有那么糟，我们要做理性的乐观主义者