Ep. 409 The Doomsayers Are Wrong, As Usual
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Predictions of doom, whether because of inadequate food, or acid rain, or poverty -- the list goes on and on -- have consistently been refuted by events. Matt Ridley makes an overwhelming case against the doomsayers, who are still very much with us.
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now is not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.1 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 409. |
| 0:41.9 | What a thrill and a delight it is to be joined today by Matt Ridley. |
| 1:03.2 | Matt Ridley was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. He is coming to us today from England. He is an author and businessman, whose books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 30 languages, been shortlisted for nine major literary prizes and won several awards. |
| 1:09.4 | The book we're going to be talking about today is The Rational Optimist, How Prosperity Evolves. |
| 1:14.6 | Matt Ridley worked for The Economist also for nine years as science editor, |
| 1:21.3 | Washington correspondent, and American editor, before becoming a self-employed writer and businessman. |
| 1:25.3 | Matt Ridley, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me on the show, Tom. |
| 1:27.8 | I was just telling people about your books, |
| 1:33.6 | and in particular about the rational optimist, which is, although I guess several years old by now, |
| 1:40.8 | it repays close study. It's still extremely important. The themes raised in it are as relevant as ever. It's very fresh. And also, as I was telling you before we went on, |
| 1:45.4 | it's a book in which when you read it, you're learning 10 things per page. That's exactly the |
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