A refreshingly nonconformist anti-jeremiad about how the human condition has improved over the ages, and is set to improve further.The reasoning seems a bit naïve in places. (He equates the current concern for global warming with the scare in the 1970s for global cooling.) But the gist of the arg...
This is a brilliant book. An exciting account of how trade has led to unparalleled prosperity and how things are getting better and better. I am an optimist by nature and am sick and tired of hearing all the doom and gloom we get all the time. Ridley's best insight is that trade leads to, as he c...