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''The Rational Optimist'' is a 2010 popular science book by Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen. The book primarily focuses on the benefits of the innate human tendency to trade goods and services. Ridley argues that this trait is the source of human prosperity, and that as people increasingly specialize in their skill sets, we will have increased trade and even more prosperity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.economist.com/node/16103826 )〕 Ridley promoted similar ideas in a TED talk called "when ideas have sex"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What Happens When Ideas Have Sex? )〕 ==Reviews== Bill Gates praised the book for critiquing opposition to international aid, but criticised the book for under-representing Global catastrophic risks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves )〕 Ricardo Salinas Pliego praised the book as a defence of free trade and globalisation. Michael Shermer gave the book positive reviews in Nature and Scientific American〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=When Ideas Have Sex )〕 before going on to present similar ideas in conference talks, and writing The Moral Arc partly in response. David Papineau praised the book for refuting "doomsayers who insist that everything is going from bad to worse" George Monbiot criticised the book in his Guardian column. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/18/matt-ridley-rational-optimist-errors )〕 Critics of the book say it fails to address wealth inequality, and other criticisms of globalization.〔()〕 〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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