![]() ![]() Innovation comes from people and human exchange, not from government policy or elite diktats. Matt Ridley spoke at TEDGlobal 2010, and showed how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He created the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, and was a columnist for the Times 2013-2018. He was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. Matt worked for the Economist for nine years as Science Editor, Washington correspondent and American editor, before becoming an independent writer, speaker and businessman. The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves By Matt Ridley On Sale: J16.99 Now: 13.59 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com Format: Qty: ADD TO CART about Product Details reviews A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up. He joined the House of Lords in February 2013 and has served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. In ‘The Rational Optimist’, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley comprehensively refutes the doom-mongers of our time, and reaches back into the past to give a rational explanation for why we can and will overcome the challenges of the future, such as climate change and the population boom. He is also the author of ‘The Red Queen’ and ‘Genome’. His book “ The Evolution of Everything” (2015), argues that humanity’s most important achievements develop from the bottom up, and counters conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by top-down authorities. Matt’s latest book, “ How Innovation Works” (2020) explores how innovation has evolved as a human habit, and how it is constantly shaping the world we live in. The book was longlisted for the FT’s Business Book of the Year, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, and won the 2011 Hayek Prize and the 2012 Julian Simon award. In his best-selling book, “ The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” (Fourth Estate, 2010), Matt takes on contemporary pessimism to argue that, in spite of disasters and reverses, the world has been getting better and better for humanity over the last two centuries, and that our quality of life and material wealth will continue to increase in the 21st century. Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. As a US Senate committee’s full, 300-page report on the origin of covid now makes clear, a whole string of clues now points towards a laboratory accident as the probable cause of the covid pandemic. Matt Ridley is a bestselling author of several thought provoking books on evolution, genetics and society and expert speaker on innovation and collaboration, macro-history and human progress and climate change. The UK is blinding itself to the truth about COVID’s origins. ![]()
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