Is American innovation plateauing? How can we encourage more

of it, both through public policy and culture? Should we be concerned that

China’s innovative capacities will overtake us? And what really motivates

innovators to innovate, anyway? Matt Ridley recently joined me for an AEI webinar

to discuss these questions, and I’m happy to present our conversation to you

all in podcast form.

Matt is the award-winning and bestselling author of numerous books, including “The Evolution of Everything” and “The Rational Optimist”. Since 2013, Matt has also been a member of the House of Lords. His new book is “How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom”.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of Political Economy with James Pethokoukis, part of the AEI Podcast Network. For more episodes, find Political Economy on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and everywhere else you find podcasts. This episode was first released on June 3, 2020.