{"id":341,"date":"2015-07-10T16:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:39:11","slug":"the-rational-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2015\/07\/10\/the-rational-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"The rational optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-342 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ridley Rational Optimist\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-16x24.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-24x36.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist-32x48.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Ridley-Rational-Optimist.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe rational optimist, how prosperity evolves\u201d by Matt Ridley, 2010 Harper Perennial, 448 p. is a great book largely circulated worldwide by a famous author who\u00a0 was a scientific journalist for \u201cThe Economist\u201d. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/info.tabboards.com\/Running%20My%20Business\/Member%20Retention\/White%20Papers\/Book%20summaries\/Rational%20Optimist.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document attached<\/a>\u00a0sums up the main ideas. Among them the fact that the media, like human mind,\u00a0 is interested in\u00a0 pessimism &#8211; which by the way is an easy tool to extract charity money especially for environmental causes!<\/p>\n<p>Ridley coins the word \u201cApocaholics\u201d who are clever for exploiting and taking profit from the natural pessimism of human nature.<\/p>\n<p>Do read this book. Its message is that of catallaxy, i.e. innovation through\u00a0 the exchange\u00a0 ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe rational optimist, how prosperity evolves\u201d by Matt Ridley, 2010 Harper Perennial, 448 p. is a great book largely circulated worldwide by a famous author who\u00a0 was a scientific journalist for \u201cThe Economist\u201d. The\u00a0document attached\u00a0sums up the main ideas. Among them the fact that the media, like human mind,\u00a0 is interested in\u00a0 pessimism &#8211; which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2015\/07\/10\/the-rational-optimist\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about The rational optimist<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}