How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom /

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...

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Glavni avtor: Ridley, Matt (Author)
Format: Knjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Izdaja:First U.S. edition.
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Kazalo:
  • 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 innovation
  • An innovation famine.