The rational optimist
Subtitle: how prosperity evolves
By: Matt Ridley.
Publisher: Fourth Estate, Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780061452055
Subjects: Wealth; Practical reason; Optimism
Description: The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Genome" and "The Red Queen" offers a provocative case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity.