As everybody knows life was better 50 years ago and I have always suspected that 50 years ago life was said to be even better 50 years before that etc etc. Matt Ridley disagrees with this. Cheap power, less people starving, fewer people dying in wars, less air pollution more people getting educated, the internet, warm dry housing are just a few of the reasons that he argues life is getting better and better for more people and further more it will continue to do so. The reason he thinks that this happens is largely down to trade. This book is well thought out and argued. I really enjoyed it especially since he tended to argue the opposite to my instinctive position on most issues.
9/10
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