The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Index

• Prologue: When Ideas Have Sex
• 1. A Better Today: The Unprecedented Present
• 2. The Collective Brain: Exchange and Specialization after 200,000 Years Ago
• 3. The Manufacture of Virtue: Barter, Trust and Rules after 50,000 Years Ago
• 4. The Feeding of the Nine Billion: Farming after 10,000 Years Ago
• 5. The Triumph of Cities: Trade after 5,000 Years Ago
• 6. Escaping Malthus's Trap: Population after 1200
• 7. The Release of Slaves: Energy after 1700
• 8. The Invention of Invention: Increasing Returns after 1800
• 9. Turning Points: Pessimism after 1900
• 10. The Two Great Pessimisms of Today: Africa and Climate after 2010
• 11. The Catallaxy: Rational Optimism about 2100
• Epilogue: The Infinite Game

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