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Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2

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The Collective Nature of Knowledge and Cooperation

This chapter explores the idea of knowledge as a collective effort, using the creation of a pencil as a metaphor for cooperation among many individual contributors. It emphasizes the importance of human collaboration across diverse backgrounds for innovation and critiques the limitations of macroeconomic modeling in capturing the complexity of economic interactions.

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