Comments on: Doomsday Deferred http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/05/21/doomsday-deferred/ Random rants and curious explanation. Sat, 19 May 2012 14:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Barb http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/05/21/doomsday-deferred/comment-page-1/#comment-4142 Barb Sat, 22 May 2010 02:23:06 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1002#comment-4142 Enjoyed the interview for the Robinson book. (There's a link to it on the url he gives.) Enjoyed the interview for the Robinson book. (There’s a link to it on the url he gives.)

]]> By: Al http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/05/21/doomsday-deferred/comment-page-1/#comment-4141 Al Sat, 22 May 2010 01:15:38 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1002#comment-4141 And your book was a year earlier. For reasons cited above (If it isn't bad, it isn't news), Good-News books have a hard time getting the attention they deserve (unless the author has a connection with the Economist, which also reviewed Ridley's). Another example: Julian Simon's 2000 book, "It's Getting Better All the Time." My latest book (Towers/Maguire, 2006) takes a longer view. It's titled, "If Instead of Apes We Had Come From Grapes, We Wouldn't Just Yet Be Wine." (light verse) And your book was a year earlier. For reasons cited above (If it isn’t bad, it isn’t news), Good-News books have a hard time getting the attention they deserve (unless the author has a connection with the Economist, which also reviewed Ridley’s). Another example: Julian Simon’s 2000 book, “It’s Getting Better All the Time.”

My latest book (Towers/Maguire, 2006) takes a longer view. It’s titled, “If Instead of Apes We Had Come From Grapes, We Wouldn’t Just Yet Be Wine.” (light verse)

]]> By: Frank S. Robinson http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/05/21/doomsday-deferred/comment-page-1/#comment-4140 Frank S. Robinson Fri, 21 May 2010 23:37:19 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1002#comment-4140 Those interested in Ridley's very good book might wish to know about my own book, THE CASE FOR RATIONAL OPTIMISM (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, 2009), which makes quite similar points and arguments, but develops the case for optimism over a broader range of subject areas. See http://www.fsrcoin.com/k.htm Those interested in Ridley’s very good book might wish to know about my own book, THE CASE FOR RATIONAL OPTIMISM (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, 2009), which makes quite similar points and arguments, but develops the case for optimism over a broader range of subject areas. See http://www.fsrcoin.com/k.htm

]]>