Rational optimist
Ridley, Matt
Rational optimist how prosperity evolves - New York Happer 2011 - x,453,xp.
CONTENT
Prologue: when ideas have sex 1
1 A better today: the unprecedented present 11
2 The collective brain:
exchange and specialization after 200,000 years ago 47
3 The manufacture of virtue:
barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago 85
4 The feeding of the nine billion:
farming after 10,000 years ago 112
5 The triumph of cities: trade after 5,000 years ago 157
6 Escaping Malthus's trap: population after 1200 191
7 The release of slaves: energy after 1700 213
8 The invention of invention:
increasing returns after 1800 247
9 Turning points: pessimism after 1900 279
10 The two great pessimisms of today:
Africa and climate after 2010 313
11 The catallaxy: rational optimism about 2100 349
Postscript 361
Acknowledgements 365
Notes and references 369
Index 427
9780061452062
128 / RID
Rational optimist how prosperity evolves - New York Happer 2011 - x,453,xp.
CONTENT
Prologue: when ideas have sex 1
1 A better today: the unprecedented present 11
2 The collective brain:
exchange and specialization after 200,000 years ago 47
3 The manufacture of virtue:
barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago 85
4 The feeding of the nine billion:
farming after 10,000 years ago 112
5 The triumph of cities: trade after 5,000 years ago 157
6 Escaping Malthus's trap: population after 1200 191
7 The release of slaves: energy after 1700 213
8 The invention of invention:
increasing returns after 1800 247
9 Turning points: pessimism after 1900 279
10 The two great pessimisms of today:
Africa and climate after 2010 313
11 The catallaxy: rational optimism about 2100 349
Postscript 361
Acknowledgements 365
Notes and references 369
Index 427
9780061452062
128 / RID