The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before.In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-145206-2
- EAN: 9780061452062
- Produktnummer: 19380478
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B14.7 cm x D3.2 cm 345 g
- Gewicht: 345
Über den Autor
MATT RIDLEY is the award-winning, bestselling author of The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, and The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His books have sold more than one million copies in thirty languages worldwide. He has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London as well as the Economist. He is a member of the House of Lords and lives in Newcastle and London.
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