Matt Ridley describes the processes and preconditions of innovation.

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Today’s book: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.

More books by Matt.

Matt’s twitter and website.

Matt’s recommendations: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Matt’s Ted Talk: When Ideas Have Sex.