Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist…

...is currently available for free on (US) Kindle. I disagree with at least one aspect of Ridley’s work, which I may blog about at a later date, but there is plenty in the book to like.

Ridley incorrectly identifies my CIS colleague Peter Saunders as an ‘Australian economist’ when he is in fact a British sociologist (although Saunders probably understands economics better than the average Australian economist).