The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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.
GenresSocial changeProgressOptimismSocial prediction
438 pages
English edition · First published 2010 by Fourth Estate · ISBN 9780007267118
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