Matt Ridley
Author, The Rational Optimist
Moderator: Stephen McBride

Matt Ridley wrote the book on optimism, literally. His 2010 bestseller The Rational Optimist became a modern classic, reframing how we think about human progress, innovation, and prosperity. Today, Ridley is leading a growing movement: the Rational Optimist Society. Its mission is to defend the very ideas that lifted billions out of poverty—freedom, innovation, science, and reason—from rising threats like bureaucracy, alarmism, and ideological capture. In this session, Matt joins Stephen McBride for a wide-ranging conversation on the economics of hope, the dangers of pessimism, and the surprisingly, perhaps inevitably, bullish case for humanity.

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