A breath of fresh air in a world of doomsday predictions, Matt Ridley makes the case that we should all be a little more optimistic.
The Rational Optimist takes a look at the evidence facing most modern pessimism—on climate, poverty, trade, innovation—and finds that much of what we think we know is false.
Pessimism is warranted if nothing changes, but that is the core thesis of the book: things always change.