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Ridley argues that this trait, together with the specialization linked to it, is the source of modern human civilization, and that, as people increasingly. Matt ridley, bestselling author of the red queen, nature via nurture, and other books, tells the story of human cultural and economic evolution in his latest work, the rational optimist. Access a free summary of the rational optimist, by matt ridley and 20,000 other business, leadership and nonfiction books on getabstract. In the rational optimist, acclaimed science writer matt ridley comprehensively refutes the doommongers of our time, and reaches back into the past to give a rational explanation for why we can and will overcome the challenges of.
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Read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge. The book primarily focuses on the benefits of the innate human tendency to trade goods and services. Matt ridley discusses the evolutionary process of ideas having sex, calling it the secret behind human progress. The rational optimist how prosperity evolves by matt ridley. How prosperity evolves by matt ridley in his argument against the worlds economic doommongers matt ridley has some persuasive history on his side david papineau. Gibbon saw history as little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and.
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