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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Seller: St Vincent de Paul of Lane County, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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The Rational Optimist : How Prosperity Evolves
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007267118 ISBN 13: 9780007267118
Language: English
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1st. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Rational Optimist This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007267118 ISBN 13: 9780007267118
Language: English
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. The Rational Optimist will do for economics what Genome did for genomics and will show that the answer to our problems, imagined or real, is to keep on doing what we've been doing for 10,000 years to keep on changing. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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The Rational Optimist : How Prosperity Evolves
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007267118 ISBN 13: 9780007267118
Language: English
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 1st. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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The Rational Optimist : How Prosperity Evolves
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007267118 ISBN 13: 9780007267118
Language: English
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780007267118.
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Ridley, Matt
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