Rational optimism with Matt Ridley: Chapter 1 of 5

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Channel: Hoover Institution · 2010 · News & Politics

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Matt Ridley, a former science and technology editor for The Economist, discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, the evolutionary process of "ideas having sex," calling it the secret behind human progress.

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