The Rational Optimist_ How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley
THE
RATIONAL
OPTIMIST
HOW PROSPERITY EVOLVES
MATT RIDLEY
For Matthew and Iris
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 ...