The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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Author : Matt Ridley
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : “Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error—a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of human action but not of human design: it emerges from the interactions of millions, not from the plans of a few. Drawing on fascinating evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. The Industrial Revolution, cell phones, the rise of Asia, and the Internet were never planned; they happened. Languages emerged and evolved by a form of natural selection, as did common law. Torture, racism, slavery, and pedophilia—all once widely regarded as acceptable—are now seen as immoral despite the decline of religion in recent decades. In this wide-ranging, erudite book, Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution, rather than design, as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our technology, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future.

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Author : Matt Ridley
Genre : History

Summary : ‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’

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Author : Shortcut Edition
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn that the slow, unprogrammed evolution of societies is what really makes them progress, and not the voluntarist projects of an elite. You will also learn that : Darwinism is only one specific theory of evolution; We must free ourselves from creationism; Evolution is more important than revolutions; The importance of so-called great men is a myth; The first step towards electric lighting dates back to 1712; The work is under the auspices of Adam Smith as much as Darwin. Matt Ridley is an iconoclastic author who happily cultivates a certain British eccentricity. And, British, Matt Ridley is British to the core, sitting in the House of Lords as 5th Viscount Ridley. Moreover, in the Anglo-Saxon world, his work has been widely debated, unleashing passions. The oppositions that his theses have met are fierce, as are the supports of his supporters. Another reason to read his work, indispensable to the modern honest man. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

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Author : Matt Ridley
Genre : Becoming (Philosophy)

Summary : We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author Matt Ridley shows just how wrong this is in his compelling new book. We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Generals win battles; politicians run countries; scientists discover truths; artists create genres; inventors make breakthroughs; teachers shape minds; philosophers change minds; priests teach morality; businessmen lead businesses; environmentalists save the planet. Not just individuals, but institutions too: Goldman Sachs, the Communist Party, the Catholic Church, al Qaeda - these are said to shape the world. This is more often wrong than right. 'The Evolution of Everything' is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch, the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Top-downery is the source of most of our worst problems in the past - why Hitler won an election, why the sub-prime bubble happened, why Africa lingered in poverty when Asia did not, why the euro is a disaster - and will be the scourge of this century too. And although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends still shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land could be released for nature - these were largely emergent phenomena. So were the internet, the mobile-phone revolution and the rise of Asia. In this wide-ranging, highly opinionated non-fiction narrative, Ridley draws on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy and examples drawn from the scientific literature, from historical narratives and from personal anecdotes.

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Author : Georges Lanoie
Genre : Study Aids

Summary : Résumé - The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge de Matt RidleyMatt Ridley est un auteur iconoclaste qui cultive avec bonheur une certaine excentricité britannique. Et, britannique, Matt Ridley l'est jusqu'au bout des ongles, puisqu'il siège à la Chambre des lords comme 5e vicomte Ridley. D'ailleurs, dans le monde anglo-saxon, son ouvrage a très largement fait débat, déchaînant les passions. Les oppositions que ses thèses ont rencontrées sont farouches, tout comme le sont les soutiens de ses partisans. Une raison supplémentaire de prendre connaissance de son ouvrage, indispensable à l'honnète homme moderne. En lisant ce résumé, vous apprendrez que l'évolution lente des sociétés, non programmée, est ce qui les fait réellement progresser, et non pas les projets volontaristes d'une élite.

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Author : QuickRead
Genre : Study Aids

Summary : Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. How New Ideas Emerge. One of the biggest, most dangerous myths that we believe today is that we have full command and control of our world. But have you ever considered that our world goes through evolution? Or that our world evolves on its own? In fact, evolution doesn’t apply just to biology anymore, there is an evolution of everything. The changes we experience in technology, language, morality, and society are gradual, incremental, and even spontaneous. The changes follow a narrative, going from one stage to the next without an end goal in mind. You see, we traditionally believe that many of the greatest achievements in the world started from the top-down, that is, changes came from great leaders and minds who aimed to make a difference. But that is not necessarily true. Instead, our world has evolved from the bottom-up and achievements such as the Industrial Revolution, cell phones, and the creation of the Internet were never planned, they simply happened. Through The Evolution of Everything, Author Matt Ridley argues that evolution can explain just about every change we have experienced in society. As you read, you’ll learn how DNA and language are similar, how money became monopolized by the government, and how our traditional views on education should no longer be accepted.