How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom / Matt Ridley.
How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom / Matt Ridley.
How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom / Matt Ridley.
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
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G 2020/5682
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English
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Physical content
406 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: The Infinite Improbability Drive -- Energy -- Public health -- Transport -- Food -- Low-technology innovation -- Communication and computing -- Prehistoric innovation -- Innovation's essentials -- The economics of innovation -- Fakes, frauds, fads and failures -- Resistance to innovati...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovati...
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How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom / Matt Ridley.
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"Originally published as How innovation works: serendipity, energy and the saving of time in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.
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G 2020/5682
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74VKadkW25Zg
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0062916599 hardcover
9780062916594 hardcover
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303.483
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991024321717502626
