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An Introduction to the Industrial Revolution | LearnLiberty

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Steve Davies of the Institute for Economic Affairs points out how the industrial revolution unleashed unprecedented economic growth and innovation. “In the course of the 19th century, average incomes per capital in th...

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Collective intelligence on the edge - Matt Ridley

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Syndicated columnist Matt Ridley explores the notion of “collective intelligence”—the knowledge dispersed throughout society which only trade can bring together, allowing people to put it into action. “Human achieveme...

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Matt Ridley ZURICH.MINDS – YouTube

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Ridley highlights how market interactions depend on people doing things for each other, enabling the average person today to enjoy luxuries that were once the province of nobility. “Louis XIV … had 498 people to prepa...

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The ancient cloud – Matt Ridley

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"Human technological advancement depends not on individual intelligence but on collective idea sharing, and it has done so for tens of thousands of years. Human progress waxes and wanes according to how much people co...

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Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist: Everybody is working for everybody else – YouTube

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Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | Video on TED.com

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At a July 2010 lecture at Oxford University, Ridley explores the self-reinforcing cycle of innovation that results when people and ideas interact with each other. “Ask yourself how long you would have to work to provi...

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