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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The City States Are the Most Innovative Countries

City states tend to be innovative. They are relatively small political units that are very vigorous traders with other places. That's where a lot of innovation happens. Anywhere that allows that to happen will get results. But when some dictator comes along as right now, i'm in charge, and i'm going to tell everon what to do, and i're going to not let you trade. And that's not a recipe for prosperity. I was looking the other day aat a sort of index of prosperity, and the countries that came top in their continents for the last ten years in terms of the measures of prosperity. You know, mauritius is the most prosperous economy in af

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