![]() NOW WATCH: Ridley's Honorary Doctoral Degree ceremony and inspiring speech. The world has got better in many aspects according to Ridley, but can it go on? What about global warming? Can robots take our jobs? Find out fascinating facts about today’s world and the answer to these intriguing questions. The Rational Optimist Quotes Showing 1-30 of 165 Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. Then he describes the key ingredient he believes has made this positive improvements possible. The sophistication of the modern world, says Ridley, lies not in individual intelligence or imagination it is a collective enterprise. Alas, Matt Ridley’s new book, The Rational Optimist, which argues for markets as the dominant source of human progress, is such a case. Later he talks about how much more happier, safer, better fed, cleverer, cleaner and freer we actually are because of the improvements of wealth and living standards. There’s an inherited tendency in the media to only tell you the bad news. Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why he is optimistic about the future and how trade and specialization explain the evolution of human development over the millennia. He says, one mustn't have a claim that everything is getting better, because problems like mental disorders and obesity are actually increasing. Ridley shares interesting data on how the world’s economy has grown through time, the extraordinary improvements of living standards that we have evidenced, the decrease of child mortality and poverty in the world, the decline in tuberculosis, guinea worm and other fatal diseases such as cancer and HIV. It just shows what a different world we are living in from every generation that has lived before.” The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Ridley, Matt on. Matt Ridley makes convincing arguments that things will continue to improve. The book states that our lives have improved significantly in terms of wealth, nutrition, life expectancy, literacy and many other measures. ![]() If you look over five hundred years, the improvements in human living standards is extraordinary and is very recent. Rational Optimist starts with a thesis that we are way better off than we ever were. In your opinion, has the proportion of people living in extreme poverty halved, doubled, or stayed the same in the last twenty years? The answer might surprise you, and most people choose wrong. Matt Ridley, honorary doctorate in social sciences of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, and writer of the book The Rational Optimist, describes in this lecture the reasons he has to believe the world has got better in spite of the common fatalist beliefs that our society is worst that ever. ![]()
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