The Rational Optimist

✍ Ridley, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 430 KB 👁 2 views

In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls cultural evolution—will i

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

✍ Ridley, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 582 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Ideas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire apocalyptic pessimism about the future of our species. Erstwhile zoologist, conservationist, and journalist, Ridle

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

✍ Ridley, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 383 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Ideas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire apocalyptic pessimism about the future of our species. Erstwhile zoologist, conservationist, and journalist, Ridle

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

✍ Ridley, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

### From Publishers Weekly Ideas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire apocalyptic pessimism about the future of our species. Erstwhile zoologist, conservationist, and journalist, Ridle

The Rational Optimist- How Prosperity Evolves

✍ Ridley, Matt 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins e-books 🌐 English ⚖ 581 KB

Tests of rationality versus an “over opt

Tests of rationality versus an “over optimist” bias

✍ Jakob Brøchner Madsen 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 862 KB