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100 1  $a Ridley, Matt.
245 14 $a The rational optimist : $b how prosperity evolves / $c Matt Ridley.
250    $a 1st Harper Perennial ed.
260    $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2011.
300    $a 453, 10 p. : $b ill., charts ; $c 21 cm.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
500    $a Includes P.S.: insights, interviews & more.
505 0  $a Prologue : when ideas have sex -- A better today : the unprecedented present -- The collective brain : exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago -- The manufacture of virtue : barter, trust, and rules after 50,000 years ago -- The feeding of the nine billion : farming after 10,000 years ago -- The triumph of cities : trade after 5,000 years ago -- Escaping Malthus's trap : population after 1200 -- The release of slaves : energy after 1700 -- The invention of invention : increasing returns after 1800 -- Turning points : pessimism after 1900 -- The two great pessimisms of today : Africa and climate after 2010 -- The catallaxy : rational optimism about 2100.
520    $a 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.
650  0 $a Wealth.
650  0 $a Practical reason.
650  0 $a Optimism.
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