Via trade and
other cultural
activities,
"ideas have
sex," and
that drives human
history in the
direction of
inconstant but
accumulative imp
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Via trade and other cultural activities, "ideas have sex," and that drives human history in the direction of inconstant but accumulative improvement over time. The criers of havoc keep being proved wrong. A fundamental optimism about human affairs is deeply rational and can be reliably conjured with.Trained at Oxford as a zoologist and an editor at The Economist for eight years, Matt Ridley
