"Why aren't we sweeping the world? Why isn't free market capitalism the dominant economic system?" "We have a reflex assumption when we see something that it was designed, created, or planned rather than emergent and spontaneous. So we imbue intentionality to things that clearly can't have intentionality," he says. 'I think Dan Dennett gets closest to cracking this'
Matt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of Everything. Ridley applies the lens of emergent order to a wide variety of phenomena including culture, morality, religion, commerce, innovation, and consciousness.