A review by mdyshel
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

2.0

Didn't manage to finish this book. I think it expresses important ideas about the central role of trust, cooperation and mutuality in human economy (didn't agree with the author in many points, which is not surprising, as he's much bigger support of the "free market" than I am - but I think what he says is important), but I didn't quite manage to get through the long anthropological explanations, and on the whole the book didn't manage to grab me. Maybe I'll try again sometime.