The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

By
Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley
2010 • 453 pages

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34 books

Business

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Vivian
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
Pour your heart into it
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
$100M Offers
DotCom Secrets
Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them

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Biz

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Burn Rate
Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company
The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
The Mousedriver Chronicles
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

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43 books

Tr Politics

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Luiz Gonzaga
The constitution of liberty
On Politics
The Opium of the Intellectuals
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Politics Of Prudence
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Dictator's Handbook

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55 books

Business

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Sarah
Why Most Things Fail
A World Without "Whom"
World Class Learners
When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
The Devil's Casino
Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
Data Smart

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56 books

Political And History

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Sarah
Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones
This Is Not Florida
The Unmaking of the President 2016
Laughter in Ancient Rome
Kushner, Inc.
The Scars of Evolution

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50 books

History

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Amanda
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
In The Devil's Garden
Spice: The History Of A Temptation
The Map of Knowledge
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Three Rings
Warm & Snug

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49 books

Philosophy

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Amanda
Walden
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla
The Dharma Bums
How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Economics

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Naked Money
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Stubborn Attachments
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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134 books

Owned

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Vivian
The Midnight Library
The Creative Habit
On writing well
Influence
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
The Alignment Problem

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118 books

Economics

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Alina
Startup Playbook
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
How to Write a Business Plan
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Who Moved My Cheese?
The Startup Owner's Manual
Breakthrough Advertising

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Owned Physical Books

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Lonesome Dove
Sin Killer
Dune: House Atreides
Telegraph Days
All Quiet on the Western Front
Consider Phlebas
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

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Audiobook

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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

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19 books

Sociology

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Vivian
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Poverty, by America
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Flawless
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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31 books

Psychology

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Vivian
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Influence
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond
SENSITIVE
Super Thinking
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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72 books

Business

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Daniel
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Purple cow

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105 books

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Renee
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
When Breath Becomes Air
Man's Search for Meaning
The Book of Life
The 5 Love Languages
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

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493 books

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Strange the Dreamer
Words of Radiance
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
All Systems Red
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

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417 books

High Priority

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Volenord
Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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Via Sahil

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Kosta
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Red Queen
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world

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To Read 2022

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

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23 books

History

vivian
Vivian
Vaikštomas miestas
Poverty, by America
The Coddling of the American Mind
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

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Silas Marner
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Open
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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Non Fiction

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If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
Currency wars the making of the next global crisis
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Life Inc.

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Non Fiction

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Do the Work
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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Reading Liberally

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Clifford Garstang
The Lacuna
The Conscience of a Liberal
Founding Faith
Beyond Fundamentalism
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Half the Sky
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