Rick Lowe
I know I've blogged about this before but I finally picked up a copy of The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley.
It opens with a favourite quote of mine by Adam Smith from An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the The Wealth of Nations (1776). Get a copy of the "Wealth of Nations from the Liberty Fund here at this link...
As the liner note says, "The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better."
I'm looking forward to reading it.
Oh, and that quote. I almost forgot.
Here it is:
"This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." Adam Smith
