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Matt Ridley

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Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
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Ridley: Why our public sector is so unproductive

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By Matt Ridley
| Rational Optimist Podcast
The enduring lessons of Jevons and Baumol Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants. The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech industry: Jevons and Baumol. One is shorthand for the expansion of products or professions with rising efficiency, the other for the shrinkage of products or professions with stagnant efficiency.
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Why our public sector is so unproductive

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By Matt Ridley
| IEA Podcast
Matt Ridley is a science writer and a former Member of the House of Lords Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants. The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech industry: Jevons and Baumol.
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Turtle doves and the myth of rewilding

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By Matt Ridley
| The Spectator Australia Verified
In the latest success story for reintroducing species to the British countryside, turtle doves, reared in captivity and released at three locations in Somerset and Devon last year, have returned to breed. Turtle doves have steeply declined in numbers, hanging on in the south and east of the country, but this scheme opens a new front in the battle to save the species as a British summer visitor. In May 2025, 244 captive-bred turtle doves were set free across three sites.
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