Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist , Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.
Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is Innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st.
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society.
Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist , Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject