Ep. 1611 How Innovation Works, and Why It Thrives in Freedom

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The great Matt Ridley joins us for a fascinating whirlwind tour of the history of innovation, and identifies key features of it that free societies disproportionately make possible. One of my all-time favorite guests!

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1611.
0:03.0	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.5	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.3	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.3	Come on out folks, if you ain't gonna start that side hustle now then win.
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0:21.1	where I take you step by step through five things that I do
0:25.2	that keep food on the woods household table and how you can do them too.
0:29.5	Check it out at pathstonencum.com.
0:32.4	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:33.9	One of my favorite people is joining us again today and that's Matt Ridley.
0:37.9	I could spend half the episode just listing for you all the different
0:42.7	biographical elements of Matt Ridley.
0:45.4	His books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages,
0:49.9	won numerous awards.
0:51.9	He is the author of a weekly column in the Times of London,
0:55.4	writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal.
0:57.5	He was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013,
1:00.9	served on the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2014 to 2017.
1:05.4	He holds BA and D-Fill degrees from Oxford University,
1:09.4	worked for the Economist for nine years as Science Editor,
1:12.4	Washington correspondent and American Editor
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