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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Tác giả chính: Ridley, Matt (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Phiên bản:First U.S. edition.
Những chủ đề:
Mục lục:
  • 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.