I like to emphasize that I'm not pro business. I am in favor of the system that allows businesses to compete. The last thing I want is be capital to be in charge of the world. That's essentially a monopolistic way of approaching it. Where does a lot of these barriers to entry to new competition come from? They come from essentially government doing the bidding of big business.
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.