Matt Ridley hawks his book "The Rational Optimist" on You Tube.



With the economy just coming out of recession and millions unemployed, times may seem pretty tough, and yet compared to the past, in Western Countries, even the "poor" have things, the kings of the past could only dream about; cars, air conditioning, access to advanced medical care, etc.

That recession was just a blip in the ongoing progress and prosperity of human kind.