Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Fourth Estate, 2011-01-01. 1st Thus, 9th Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box X14 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 9th.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Fourth Estate* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing a glass ""half full"", front and rear. Orange Green & black titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE. * Illustrations: Several b/w, l/drawn graphs in text.* Pages: 367 pp. text. lxxxvi pp. notes, refs, index & blank at rear.* Description:- We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found innovative solutions to every obstacle it has faced so far. In the Rational Optimist, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley comprehensively refutes the doom-mongers of our times, and reaches back into the past to give a rational explanation for why we can-and will – overcome the challenges of the future, such as climate change and the population boom. Bold and controversial, it is a brilliantly confident assertion that the 21st. century will be the best for humankind yet. (Written before the Pandemic and the Ukranian War !!) * This is a FINE copy of the 1st thus. 9TH. Imp. with no visible faults.*