The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World
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S**Y

Excellent exposition about bottoms up approach and privatisation

Matt Ridley has written a master piece in my opinion. I was amazed at the depth fo knowledge put forth in this book. Must Read. You would appreciate the Adam Smith's philosophy of free market at every stage of readingSummary : Through very clear a precise well researched argument the authors proves that evolution is a bottoms up phenomenon. From religion, to government to technology, eduction, money and many more aspects he beautifully argues that planning and control have eventually failed to produce any substantial results and its the small incremental and evolutionary changes which have lead to a better world.The book is quite a arduous at times and i wish he kept the topics limited to a few important themes. Other than that it is a wonderful read.

T**E

Bottom-up vs Top-down

Matt Ridley gibt mit "The Evolution of Everything" ein überzeugendes Plädoyer für die dezentrale Entwicklung anthropologischer, kultureller, wirtschaftlicher und wissenschaftlicher Phänomene im Verlauf der Menschheitsgeschichte. So ließen sich die Einsichten Darwins zur natürlichen Selektion, die er 1859 in "The Origin of Species" formulierte, auch auf alle anderen Felder des menschlichen Wirkens ausdehnen.In allen Gebieten verliefe die menschliche Entwicklung schrittweise und ungerichtet; Ideen werden einer natürlichen Auslese unterworfen, die zu den gesellschaftlich bestmöglichen Ergebnissen führt.Ridley bemängelt, dass der Schwerpunkt hingegen viel zu oft auf ein intelligentes, vom Menschen bewusst geplantes Design der Gesellschaft gelegt wird. Generäle gewinnen Schlachten; Politiker führen Länder; Wissenschaftler entdecken Wahrheiten; Erfinder erzielen Durchbrüche; Philosophen formen des Bewusstsein der Menschen; Priester lehren Moral; Geschäftsmänner führen Unternehmen; Verschwörer erzeugen Krisen: Beispiele für die Annahme, einzelne Individuen würden den Lauf der Geschichte bestimmen. Menschen hätten eine Tendenz häufig Effekt und Ursache zu vertauschen, um Erklärungen für Phänomene zu finden, die ihrem bewussten Einfluss durch Planung entzogen sind.Märkte, Sprache, Sitten und Bräuche - Beispiele für menschliche Phänomene, die nicht durch bewusste menschliche Planung entstanden, sondern durch graduelle Evolution und ständige Veränderung den Lauf der Geschichte prägen.Das Buch besitzt einen beeindruckenden Umfang. Die hochwertigen Quellen, auf deren Basis Ridley seine Argumentation durchführt, regen an, sich in den gewünschten Bereichen noch intensiver mit den Themen auseinanderzusetzen.Das Buch ist ein freiheitliches Buch, das sich grundsätzlich gegen eine Vision des Menschen richtet, die postuliert, der Mensch müsse durch rationale Planung einzelner Experten in ein zukünftiges Utopia geführt werden. Ich wurde beim Lesen oft an die Nobelpreisrede Friedrich Hayeks "Die Anmaßung von Wissen" von 1974 erinnert.

J**E

Brilliant extension of Darwin's key insights to other fields of existence

An amazing book. To me it provided very, very interesting new insights that help me to understand better what is going on in so many different areas and facets of existence. Top marks! The last chapter alone, summarising the thesis of the previous 316 pages, is worth the price of the whole book. If I was forced to come up with one, single critical point of an otherwise superb work it relates to a point in the chapter on the evolution of the mind and the associated question of free will. There is a short discussion of the purpose of the justice system and the law in general given the possibility of no free will existing. In this discussion, I think, Matt doesn't do justice to the purpose of the justice system (pun intended). The law and specifically the penal system (prison sentences, fines etc.) are not primarily there to "punish" us for our bad deeds as is conventional wisdom that Matt seems to accept. Any such punishment obviously could be considered unfair or even cruel in a world without free will (the bigger point of this chapter). However, the conventional view of the law, while advocated by lawyers and politicians, is incomplete. In reality, the law and specifically the penalty system have three overlapping functions: The law serves as a deterrent (possibly its single most important function), secondly, it is there to organise compensation of the victim of a legal wrong for damages and harm suffered (primarily civil and public law, less so criminal law) and thirdly it satisfies our potentially inborn sense of revenge (a.k.a. "sense of justice"). These three functions overlap but in any event, they have little to do with free will existing or not. These functions would justify the existing law and judicial system even in world where everyone had fully accepted radical determinism (i.e. a world without free will). Regardless of this little criticism of a minor point in this ambitious book – it really is brilliant. I loved it every page of it.

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Ganz neue Einsichten, unkinventionell, spannend, unterhaltsam. Eine Anzahl von Aha Effekten erschloss sich mir.

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