More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index The Simon Abundance Index 2024 finds Earth’s resources 509% more plentiful than in 1980. Marian L. Tupy 22 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Innovation: The Forgotten Factor Western innovation is the most effective foreign aid programme ever discovered. Conor McKinley 4 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances. Saul Zimet 14 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs. Matt Ridley 15 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
PODCAST 82: Matt Ridley talks about the Coronavirus Pandemic and His New Book How Innovation Works Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time. He recently wrote for Quillette about GM crops. Quillette / Matt Ridley / Toby Young 17 Mar 2020 · 1 min read
