Steve,
I've a great deal of time for Matt Ridley -- qua biologist. He's written
some extremely good books on genetics.
Appreciate, however, where he's coming from. Besides being a biologist he's
also the scion of an aristocratic family with large land holdings whose
relatives have been in the British establishment for a long time. He was
also the Chairman of Northern Rock Bank during the only run on a bank by UK
depositors in a century. Something between £20 billion and £30 billion had
to be injected by the government -- that is, the British taxpayers. After
being blamed by a House of Commons Select Committee for the irresponsible
strategies of Northern Rock and "harming the reputation of the British
banking industry" he was forced to resign.
But apart from that slight hiccup in his career his life is probably little
different as he surveys his farms, fields and game-birds every day. He sees
things a little differently from those who have lost their life savings and
those who are now unemployed.
My bet's on you, Steve.
Keith
At 10:36 28/04/2010 -0400, you wrote:
Won't things be great if he's right? Wonder if he'll accept a charitable
longbet like
http://longbets.org/126
Steve
http://www.skeptic.com/upcoming-lectures/the-rational-optimist/
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