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Podcast: The Vance Crowe Podcast
Episode: Matt Ridley on innovation, the destruction of peer review and why coffee was banned in the 1600s
Description: Lord Ridley is back! He has a new book out "How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom" and he tells me all about how peer review has broken down, how Europe got the potato and why kings would ban coffee houses (to stop gossip). Also we talk about the Dicamba ban on soybeans. It was a fun interview!To buy Matt Ridley's "How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom" use this linkDuring the opening I mentioned a set of classes that I have been building online. If you are interested in...