The Rational Optimist is a 2010 popular science book by Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. The book primarily focuses on the benefits of the innate human tendency to trade goods and services. Ridley argues that this trait, together with the specialization linked to it, is the source of modern human civilization, and that, as people increasingly specialize in their skill sets, we will have increased trade and more prosperity.[1]
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TheRationalOptimist is a 2010 popular science book by Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. The book primarily...
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(1998), The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. New York: Routledge. AtKisson, Alan (1999), Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks...
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include The Art of Living, A Guide to Confident Living, The Tough-Minded Optimist, and Inspiring Messages for Daily Living.[citation needed] The Peale radio...
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themselves; seeing a bright future ahead; being optimists; living interesting, exciting lives; enjoying the things they are doing." "High scorers on this...
firmness to the point of sinking into irresponsibility. Overflowing with imagination and love, in every way faithful and devoted, inveterate optimist, he eventually...
a philosopher of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, explained the importance of “rational” law in economy and society. Friedrich Hayek...
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with the both of them. Monster Krumholtz (voiced by Harland Williams) is a purple minotaur-like monster. Monster is the eternal optimist living by the motto...
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