Why We Should Be Rationally Optimistic
May 11th, 2010
Things are falling apart.
Riots in Greece.
Oil spills and volcanoes.
Bailouts.
Sudden, inexplicable falls in the stock market.
But when we come to this conclusion, are we participating in a unique psychological phenomena that mistakes pieces for the whole? Another possibility, it that the media tends to over-report the negative and under-report the positive. As any good editor will tell you, “If it bleeds, it leads.”
After reading the The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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